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diff --git a/20693.txt b/20693.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..16b6649 --- /dev/null +++ b/20693.txt @@ -0,0 +1,716 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Jungle Baby, by G. E. Farrow + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Jungle Baby + +Author: G. E. Farrow + +Illustrator: E. M. Taylor + M. F. Taylor + +Release Date: February 26, 2007 [EBook #20693] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE JUNGLE BABY *** + + + + +Produced by David Edwards, Sankar Viswanathan, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net +(This file was produced from scans of public domain material +produced by Microsoft for their Live Search Books site.) + + + + + + + + + + [Illustration] + + [Illustration] + + + THE + JUNGLE + BABY + + + + by + + G.E. FARROW + + + + Illustrated by + + E.M. & M.F. TAYLOR + + + + + + Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd. + + London . Paris . Berlin . New York . + + * * * * * + + + + +[Illustration] + + +There was once a little white baby boy called Bab-ba, he had +bright blue eyes and golden curls, and he had a black Ayah +for his nurse. She had been with Bab-ba ever since he was +quite a tiny baby in long robes, and she was very fond of +him. Her name was Jeejee-walla, but they just called her +Ayah. + +Bab-ba's Father was an English Officer in India, and they +lived in a beautiful white house on the Simla Hills, with a +big verandah running all around it. Round about the verandah +was a garden, and outside the garden the jungle stretched +for miles and miles, and in the jungle were all sorts of +beasts and birds. + +[Illustration] + +Little Bab-ba used to play on the verandah with his pets, +Mioux-Mioux, the cat, and Wooff-Wooff, the dog, and they +both loved him very dearly. Mioux-Mioux never scratched him +when he accidentally pulled her tail, although she felt very +much like doing so; and Wooff-Wooff used to stand on his +hind legs and perform all sorts of funny tricks to make +Bab-ba laugh. + +[Illustration] + +Every morning after breakfast Bab-ba threw bread crumbs out +to the little birds on the lawn, and they used to sit in the +trees and watch for him, and sing about him till he came out +of the house. "Good little Bab-ba, who gives us our food," +one would sing; and "We all love little Bab-ba," several of +the others would reply from another part of the garden. + +Mioux-Mioux used to watch them out of the corner of her +eyes, but she never attempted to catch them because she knew +that Bab-ba loved them; and Wooff-Wooff used to sit with his +head on one side and wonder however they managed with only +two legs and not four like his. + +But one day when Bab-ba was feeding the birdies, the big +snake Hoodo, who lived in the garden, came creeping under +the verandah and tried to catch some of the birds while they +were eating, but Bab-ba saw him and called out!-- + + "Go away, bad Hoodo, go away!" + +and his Ayah heard him and came running out to see what was +the matter. + +[Illustration] + +When she saw Hoodo, the big snake, she caught Bab-ba up in +her arms and ran with him into the house, and two of the men +servants came out with big sticks and beat Hoodo over the +head and body till he could hardly crawl away again into his +hole under a big tree in the garden. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Now Hoodo was a very wicked snake, and was very angry about +all this, and he thought and thought about it, and wondered +how he could be revenged on little Bab-ba, for he put all +that had occurred down to him, and so one day, after he had +got better he went out into the jungle to see an old friend +of his, Tig, the Tiger, and talk the matter over with him. + +Hoodo thought that Tig the Tiger was as greedy and cruel as +he was himself, and so he asked him how he would like a +little white fat baby boy for his dinner, and Tig licked his +lips and said, "H'M! we shall see." + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Then Hoodo went further into the jungle and met Prowl, the +Wolf. + +"How would you like a little fat white baby to eat?" asked +Hoodo; and Prowl, the Wolf, licked his lips and said, "Ha!" +and nothing else. + +[Illustration] + +A little further on Hoodo met Bluf, the big brown Bear, and +he asked him what he would do if he met a little fat white +baby in the jungle. + +And Bluf stood up on his hind legs, hugged himself and said, +"Ough! Very nice, very nice indeed!" + +And then Poon-dah, the big wild Elephant, came crushing +through the jungle, and Hoodo had to scurry out of his way, +so that he didn't get trampled upon. + +"How would you like a little white ----" he screamed out, +but Poon-dah made a loud noise with his trunk and went on, +for he didn't converse with snakes. + +Nevertheless, Hoodo was satisfied, for he said, "If Poon-dah +would trample on me in passing, so he would on a little +white baby if he were here;" and his wicked black beady eyes +were bright and he laughed maliciously. + +[Illustration] + +After this Hoodo went home to his hole under the tree in +Bab-ba's Father's garden, and watched and waited till Bab-ba +should be quite by himself; and one day when Wooff-Wooff had +gone off after a wild rabbit, and Mioux-Mioux was fast asleep +in the sun, the Ayah went into the house to fetch Bab-ba's +Noah's ark, and he was left alone on the verandah. + +Then Hoodo came sliding out of his hole very quickly and +stood before the verandah, waving his head backwards and +forwards, and shooting out his little tongue, while the sun +showed all the colours of the rainbow on his smooth shiny +skin. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +"Oh, pretty Hoodo!" said Bab-ba, "but you're naughty. Go +away!" + +"No," said Hoodo sweetly, "I'm not naughty, dear Bab-ba, and +I know where some such beautiful flowers grow. Come with me +and I'll show you!" + +"No," said Bab-ba, shaking his head; but Hoodo continued to +look at him steadily, and presently Bab-ba slid down from +the verandah and came towards him. + +Then Hoodo laughed and drew back quickly into the thick part +of the garden, with Bab-ba running after him. + +When the Ayah returned to the verandah with Bab-ba's Noah's +Ark, and she saw his little empty chair and Mioux-Mioux asleep +in the sun, she grew alarmed and ran about calling Bab-ba's +name, and wringing her hands, and Bab-ba's Mother came out, +and his Father, and they and all the servants hunted about in +the garden for a very long while, but could not find any trace +of him, and Mioux-Mioux woke up and wondered what all the +commotion was about, and Wooff-Wooff came back without the +rabbit and wondered too. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Wooff-Wooff went over to where Mioux-Mioux was sitting, and +talked the matter over with her. While they were talking, +some little birds overhead called out to them to attract +their attention. + +"Bab-ba," they said, "Bab-ba has followed Hoodo, the Snake, +into the jungle, and he will be lost and eaten by the wild +beasts unless he is brought back. Quick! Quick! Go after +him! Haste!" + +[Illustration] + +And so Wooff-Wooff ran to Bab-ba's Father and Mother and +tried to tell them. + +He ran backwards and forwards towards the jungle, and barked +and tried to make them follow; but they wouldn't understand, +and so at last he had to set out himself to try and find +him. + +Now after Bab-ba had followed Hoodo a little way through the +garden, the snake turned to a little path which led to a +hole broken in the wall. + +"You must crawl through here," said Hoodo, "the pretty +flowers are on the other side." + +So Bab-ba crawled through and found himself in the jungle. + +[Illustration] + +"Further on! further on!" cried Hoodo, every time Bab-ba +stopped to gather any, "there are prettier ones further on." +And so Bab-ba went on and on till he came to where Tig the +Tiger lay asleep in the long grass. + +"Now's your time," whispered Hoodo in his ear, "here's the +little white baby for your dinner." And Tig sprang up with a +roar. + +But Bab-ba wasn't a bit frightened, and he only laughed, and +said "what a big, big Mioux-Mioux!" And he put his arms +around Tig's neck and nestled his head in his soft fur, till +Tig forgot all about his dinner, and purred with delight +just like Mioux-Mioux did when she was pleased. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Hoodo was very angry at this, and finding that Tig was +making friends with Bab-ba instead of eating him up, he +called Bab-ba to him and said, "Come, let us be going, or we +shall be late home." And Bab-ba kissed Tig, the Tiger, and +followed Hoodo further into the jungle, till they met Prowl, +the Wolf. "Here's the little white baby," whispered Hoodo. +And Prowl said, "Ha!" and was going to spring upon him and +eat him up. But Bab-ba only laughed and said, "What a big +Wooff-Wooff!" and patted him on the head, and looked into +his eyes so that Prowl forgot all about eating him, and +licked his hands and frisked about him just as Wooff-Wooff +would have done. + +"This is silly," said Hoodo angrily. "Come away, it is near to +sunset, and we must be getting home," and he led the way to +where Bluf, the big brown Bear, lived. "I've brought the +little white baby for you," said Hoodo. And Bluf said, "Ough! +very nice, very nice indeed!" And caught Bab-ba up in his arms +and hugged him. + +"Just like my Ayah does!" laughed Bab-ba, and he patted +Bluf's cheeks and kissed him, so that Bluf didn't want to +eat him at all, but only to hug him and keep him warm. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Just then there was a loud trumpeting heard, and Bluf put +Bab-ba down to the ground, and Hoodo slid off into the grass, +hissing. "Now Poon-dah is coming and you will be trampled to +death. Good-bye, little Bab-ba, I hate you!" + +But when Poon-dah came and saw the little white baby, he +remembered that he had not always been a wild elephant, but +had once himself belonged to a white man, and so he picked +little Bab-ba up with his trunk and placed him gently on his +back. + +[Illustration] + +And that's the position in which Bab-ba's Father found him, +when at last he had understood Wooff-Wooff's barking, and +had followed him into the jungle, accompanied by some native +servants armed with guns and sticks. Wooff-Wooff traced the +little boy by his scent, till they came upon him riding on +Poon-dah's back. + +And now a funny thing happened, for amongst the servants was +one who had once been Poon-dah's keeper, and Poon-dah remembered +him and allowed himself to be led by him to Bab-ba's home. And +so they returned in triumph with Bab-ba and his Father on +Poon-dah's back, and good Wooff-Wooff barking and frisking by +his side. + +The wicked Hoodo was justly punished, for just as he was +going into his hole under the tree, he met an old enemy of +his, Tiv, the Mongoose, and the two fought and fought for a +long while, till at last Hoodo was exhausted and stretched +himself out and died, while little Tiv sat up and rubbed his +paws together to clean them, and then skipped off to his new +little home under Bab-ba's verandah, where he still lives to +keep away any other wicked snakes from harming him. + +[Illustration] + + * * * * * + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Jungle Baby, by G. E. 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