Yis, you must! 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.
The Jungle Books - Rudyard Kipling
I mean, how can you not want to read stuff like *that*? :)
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:)
From the pen of the Secretary:
Tabaqui means brown colour from the Hindi word for tobacco "tambaku"--which is the colour of the Jackal.
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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.
The Jungle Books - Rudyard Kipling
I mean, how can you not want to read stuff like *that*?
:)
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*away to the library*
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Tell me what you think when you've read some, please!
:)
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