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"The King's Ankus": Mowgli discovers a jewelled object beneath the Cold Lairs, which he later discards carelessly, not realising that men will kill each other to possess it."The Undertakers": A mugger crocodile, a jackal and a Greater adjutant stork, three of the most unpleasant characters on the river, spend an afternoon bickering with each other until some Englishmen arrive to settle some unfinished business with the crocodile.Mowgli rescues them and then prepares to take revenge. " Letting in the Jungle": Mowgli has been driven out of the human village for witchcraft, and the superstitious villagers are preparing to kill his adopted parents Messua and her unnamed husband.Later, he must save a village from a landslide with the help of the local animals whom he has befriended. "The Miracle of Purun Bhagat": An influential Indian politician abandons his worldly goods to become an ascetic holy man.This story can be seen as a forerunner of the Just So Stories. After Shere Khan was driven away by him for nearly defiling the Peace Rock, Hathi the elephant tells Mowgli the story of how the first tiger got his stripes when fear first came to the jungle. During a drought, Mowgli and the animals gather at a shrunken Wainganga River for a Water Truce" where the display of the blue-colored Peace Rock prevents anyone from hunting at its riverbanks.

"How Fear Came": This story takes place before Mowgli fights Shere Khan.

The 1994 film The Jungle Book used it as a source.Įach story is followed by a related poem: All of the stories were previously published in magazines in 1894–5, often under different titles. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont. The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.