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[[File:second_jb.jpg|right|The Second Jungle Book]]

'''''The Second Jungle Book''''' is a sequel to ''[[Jungle Book|The Jungle Book]]'' by [[Rudyard Kipling]]. 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]]. All of the stories were previously published in magazines in 1894-1895, often under different titles. The book is less well-known than the original even though it arguably contains some of Kipling's best animal stories.

==Stories in The Second Jungle Book:==

You can find the complete text at [[Project Gutenberg]]'s official website.

* "How Fear Came": During a drought, Mowgli and the animals gather at a shrunken river for a 'water truce', during which Hathi the [[elephant]] tells the story of how the first [[tiger]] got his stripes. This story can be seen as a forerunner of the [[Just So Stories]].

* "The Miracle of Purun Bhagat": An influential [[India|Indian]] politician abandons his worldly goods to become an ascetic holy man. Later he must save a village from a landslide with the help of the local animals.

* "[[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) [[Messua's husband|husband]]. Mowgli rescues them and then prepares to take revenge.

* "The Undertakers": A [[crocodile]], a [[jackal]] and an adjutant [[Crane (bird)|crane]], 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.

* "The King's [[Ankus]]": Mowgli discovers a jewelled object which he later discards carelesslly, not realising that men will kill each other to possess it. '''Note''': the first edition of ''The Second Jungle Book'' inadvertently omits the final 500 words of this story, in which Mowgli returns the treasure to its hiding-place to prevent further killings. Although the error was corrected in later printings, it was picked up by some later editions.

* "Quiquern": A young [[Inuit]] hunter and his girlfriend set out across the [[arctic]] ice on a desperate hunt for food to save their tribe from starvation, guided by the mysterious animal-spirit Quiquern. But Quiquern may not be what it seems....

* "[[Red Dog (Rudyard Kipling)|Red Dog]]": Mowgli's wolfpack is threatened by a pack of rampaging [[dhole]]. Mowgli asks [[Kaa]] the [[python]] to help him formulate a plan to defeat them.

* "The Spring Running": Mowgli, now almost seventeen years old, is growing restless for reasons he cannot understand. On an aimless run through the jungle he stumbles across the village where his adopted mother [[Messua]] is now living with her two-year old son, and is torn between staying with her and returning to the jungle.

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