Night-Song in the Jungle It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day 's rest , scratched himself , yawned , and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips . Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling , squealing cubs , and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived . `` Augrh ! '' said Father Wolf . `` It is time to hunt again . '' He was going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined : `` Good luck go with you , O Chief of the Wolves . And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world . '' It was the jackal -- Tabaqui , the Dish-licker -- and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief , and telling tales , and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps . But they are afraid of him too , because Tabaqui , more than anyone else in the jungle , is apt to go mad , and then he forgets that he was ever afraid of anyone , and runs through the forest biting everything in his way . Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad , for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature . We call it hydrophobia , but they call it dewanee -- the madness -- and run . `` Enter , then , and look , '' said Father Wolf stiffly , `` but there is no food here . '' `` For a wolf , no , '' said Tabaqui , `` but for so mean a person as myself a dry bone is a good feast . Who are we , the Gidur-log -LSB- the jackal people -RSB- , to pick and choose ? '' He scuttled to the back of the cave , where he found the bone of a buck with some meat on it , and sat cracking the end merrily . `` All thanks for this good meal , '' he said , licking his lips . `` How beautiful are the noble children ! How large are their eyes ! And so young too ! Indeed , indeed , I might have remembered that the children of kings are men from the beginning . ''
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