Lucky cat
If the other boys hadn't come
she would have lost the fight
She should have just run away
instead of fighting with such a big dog.
She was bound to lose against a dog.
I don't think so Tofu
Dogs are more powerful than cats, Tia
Maybe so
But when you have courage and fight with intelligence
you can win against anyone.
Once in the heart of a thick jungle lived a little boy called Mowgli
He did not belong to the jungle
as he was a human child
Yet, he grew up with a family of wolves
His mother, Raksha cared for him as she cared for her other pups.
Careful Mowgli, or you'll fall off the ridge!
No ma! I won't! See you later!
And so Mowgli took off into the jungle to find his friend and teacher Bagheera
When Mowgli had been a small baby
no more than a year old, he had been found
and saved from the forest fire by Bagheera
Of course no body knew who Mowgli was
but they always believed he came from the man village
at the outskirts of the jungle
Bagheera had handed over Mowgli to the wolves
so that he could have a family to grow up with
Since then Mowgli had learned the ways of the jungle from his family
and his friends Bagheera and Baloo
He ran like them
hunted like them
climbed trees like them
and also spoke like them
Hello Bagheera! What are you going to teach me today?
I won't be teaching you today
Today, Baloo has something planned for you.
Let's go fishing in the river
Hello Baloo! Let me get a stick to make a spear for fishing
You don't need a spear to fish.
But it makes it easier.
You can't do it like that Mowgli.
That is not our way
Then how is it that I know how to make a spear Baloo?
Who taught me that?
As usual Bagheera and Baloo did not have an answer to Mowgli's questions
The forest fire had started and destroyed the man village
And nobody lived there for a long time
Bagheera had tried many times to find someone to return the child to
but no one was there
When the village settled again, the men put sharp barbed wire fences
and laid traps to keep the animals at bay
Although, the animals couldn't understand why
All creatures of the jungle had always maintained a safe distance from the humans
They never meant any harm to them
In any case, the fences and traps made it impossible for Bagheera
to return the child back to the human world.
Okay… we will do it without a spear. Let's go
The trio set off to the riverbank
where, Baloo showed Mowgli how to catch fish without a spear
Baloo would swiftly duck his head into the water and come out with fish in his mouth
Mowgli gave it several tries
before he was successful
The day passed in the lesson and they decided to head back to the wolf pack
They had almost reached home when Bagheera alerted the other two
There was someone in the bushes ahead in the far right
Soon the others could see a pair of fierce eyes with a scar
that ran across the left one
emerging from the bushes.
Then the whole figure stepped ahead.
Run Mowgli! Run!
Immediately Baloo and Mowgli took off towards home
leaving Bagheera to fight the large villainous tiger, Sherkhan.
Bagheera and Sherkhan immediately leapt at each other.
Sherkhan hadn't expected Bagheera to be so strong
and was taken by surprise
when he managed to throw Sherkhan against a large tree
The elders of wolf pack soon joined them
Sherkhan knew he was injured and outnumbered.
You might have saved him today
But the human belongs to me. I will come back for him!
Sherkhan!
What are you doing here! This is not your territory.
No territory can keep me out
And the next time I come
I will not spare anyone who stands in my way!
The jungle knew that Sherkhan's threats were not to be taken lightly
And soon worry spread in the wolf pack regarding Mowgli's stay
and the pack's future
I can defend myself
I will not let any harm come to my family and friends.
I know a way to put an end to this
Mowgli gathered Bagheera and Baloo
I know how I came to the jungle!
I have seen Sherkhan's eyes only one time before in my life
He had attacked our village when I was small
To scare him, the elders used to fire
but he took me and escaped
and the whole village caught fire
When my father followed him to save me, he killed my father
That is why the villagers have put traps and fences now
Yes, but now we will stop Sherkhan forever!
We know where he sleeps in the day
at the foot of the small mountain on the other side of the river
The bulls feed on the grassy slopes of that mountain
If we can scare them to run down the mountain, Sherkhan won't stand a chance.
That is a good plan Mowgli
The trio assured the others that they had found a way-out of their troubles
And by tomorrow night, all will be fine.
Early next morning, the three set off for the mountain
They went around it and climbed it from the other side
so that no one could see them coming
Once on top of it, they could see the bulls eating the grass.
The three leapt at the quiet bulls and rushed towards them screaming so loudly
that the bulls got scared and started running down the hill to escape from them
The plan was working!
The whole mountainside shook and rumbled under the stamping of the bulls
This woke up Sharekhan. He saw the bulls rushing towards him
There were scores of them. Scared, he started running away from them
He is trying to get away!
I won't let him!
Mowgli took to the tress and swung himself from branches of one tree to another
On the other side Sherkhan couldn't keep ahead of the bulls
Their sharp horns poked him and he got trampled under their feet
One would have died
But Sherkhan wasn't an ordinary tiger
He was evil and trickery was his second nature.
He latched onto the horns of one bull and tugged at him
Agitated, the bull threw him aside and over the side of the plateau!
Sherkhan held to the edges of the plateau and started climbing up
He had almost made it when a small tree trunk hit him in the face
He lost his grip and fell to his death.
It was Mowgli
He had reached the spot and found a small tree uprooted by the bull's stampede
With his quick thinking, he had thrown Sherkhan to his end
He had saved himself and protected the entire jungle from the tyranny of this villain
Bagheera, Baloo and Mowgli returned to the wolf pack
where everyone rejoiced on hearing what had happened.
So you see Tofu
to win, you don't always have to be the strongest
If you have courage and think intelligently
you can win against anyone!
Yes Tia! Now I understand what you meant!
Shall we go down and play with our friends now?
Yes! Let's go!
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