Гв.ст.сержант Тютюхин и Маугли

[tima]

Вчера взял в библиотека Маугли и начал с Тютюхиным читать. С трудом добрались до 18-ой страницы, на которой выяснилось, что Багира знает законы джунглей лучше, чем Совет Стаи - она выкупила "лягушонка" за убитого ею буйвола.

Вопрос "почему?" высыпался из Тютюхина раз, наверное, сто. Вместо чтения книги приходится изворачиваться и придумывать почему жизнь лягушонка Маугли ценнее, чем жизнь буйвола.

P.S. Рядовая Аришка к чтению тоже прислушивалась, глазела на картинки, но вопросов пока не задавала - видать, ей все понятно с листа.

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[skittishfox]

"There is no one in the jungle that knows that I, Bagheera, carry that mark the mark of the collar; and yet, Little Brother, I was born among men, and it was among men that my mother died in the cages of the King's Palace at Oodeypore. It was because of this that I paid the price for thee at the Council when thou wast a little naked cub. Yes, I too was born among men. I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera, the Panther, and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw, and came away ; and be- cause I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan. Is it not so? '

" Yes," said Mowgli ; " all the jungle fear Bagheera- all except Mowgli."

" Oh, thou art a man's cub," said the Black Panther, very tenderly ; " and even as I returned to my jungle, so thou must go back to men at last, to the men who are thy brothers, if thou art not killed in the Council.'