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这部经典故事集以莫格利开篇。他是一个在印度丛林中由狼群抚养长大的人类孩子，在老虎谢尔汗的追捕下，跟着棕熊巴鲁和黑豹巴希拉学习丛林法则。其他故事讲述了印度花园里一只勇敢的獴，以及一只寻找安全家园的白海豹。
开篇
Mowgli’s Brothers
莫格利的兄弟们
Now Rann the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free— The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn are we.
现在鸢鹰兰恩把黑夜带回家来， 那是蝙蝠芒放出来的—— 牛群被关进牛棚和小屋， 因为直到黎明我们都自由无拘。
This is the hour of pride and power, Talon and tush and claw.
这是骄傲和力量的时刻， 利爪、獠牙和钩爪的时刻。
Oh, hear the call!—
哦，听那呼唤！——
Good hunting all That keep the Jungle Law!
祝所有遵守 丛林法则的猎得好运！
Night-Song in the Jungle
丛林夜歌
It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills
那是在西奥尼山里一个非常暖和的傍晚，七点钟的时候，
when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned,
狼爸爸从白天的休息中醒来，挠了挠身子，打了个哈欠，
and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips.
然后把爪子一只接一只地伸展开来，好驱除爪尖上那种困倦的感觉。
Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs,
狼妈妈躺着，她那灰色的大鼻子搭在她那四只翻滚着、尖叫着的幼崽身上，
and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived.
月光照进了他们全家居住的洞口。
“Augrh!” said Father Wolf.
“噢呜！”狼爸爸说。
“It is time to hunt again.”
“又是去打猎的时候了。”
He was going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined:
他正要跳下山去，这时一个拖着毛茸茸尾巴的小影子越过门槛，哀叫道：
“Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves.
“愿好运与你同在，啊，狼族的首领。
And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.”
也愿好运和坚固洁白的牙齿与高贵的孩子们同在，愿他们永远不会忘记这世上挨饿的人。”
It was the jackal—Tabaqui, the Dish-licker—and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief,
那是豺——舔盘子的塔巴克——印度的狼都瞧不起塔巴克，因为他到处跑来跑去搬弄是非，
and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps.
传播流言，还吃村里垃圾堆上的破布和皮革碎片。
But they are afraid of him too, because Tabaqui, more than anyone else in the jungle, is apt to go mad,
但他们也怕他，因为塔巴克比丛林里的任何动物都更容易发疯，
and then he forgets that he was ever afraid of anyone,
那时他就忘了自己曾经怕过任何人，