Mowgli is a young boy. He has lived with a pack of wolves in the jungle since he was a baby. Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear have been his friends and teachers. One day, Mowgli is captured by the monkeys and taken to their home on the edge of the jungle. Bagheera and Baloo, with the help of Kaa the rock python come to rescue him.
The cloud hid the moon and, as Mowgli wondered what would come next, he heard Bagheera's light feet on the terrace. The black panther had raced up the slope almost without a sound and was striking – he knew better than to waste time in biting – right and left among the monkeys who were seated around Mowgli in circles of fifty and sixty deep. There was a howl of fright and rage and then, as Bagheera tripped on the rolling, kicking bodies beneath him, a monkey shouted, 'There is only one here! Kill him! Kill!' A scuffling mass of monkeys, biting, scratching, tearing and pulling, closed over Bagheera, while five or six laid hold of Mowgli dragged him up the wall of the summer house and pushed him through the hole in the broken dome. A man-trained boy would have been badly bruised for the fall was a good fifteen feet, but Mowgli fell as Baloo had taught him to fall and he landed on his feet…
Then from the ruined wall nearest the jungle rose up the rumbling war-shout of Baloo ….. 'Bagheera,' he shouted, 'I am here. I climb! I haste! Ahuwora ! The stones slip under my feet!' ….. He panted up the terrace only to disappear to the head in a wave of monkeys, but he threw himself squarely on his haunches, and, spreading out his forepaws, hugged as many as he could hold, and then began to hit with regular bat-bat-bat, like the flipping strokes of a paddle wheel. A crash and a splash told Mowgli that Bagheera had fought his way to the tank where the monkeys could not follow …..
Kaa had only just worked his way over the west wall, landing with a wrench that dislodged a coping stone into a ditch. He had no intention of losing any advantage of the ground, and coiled and uncoiled himself once or twice, to be sure that every foot of his long body was in working order. All that while the fight with Baloo went on, and the monekys yelled in the tank around Bagheera ….. Then Kaa came straight, quickly and anxious to kill. The fighting strength and weight of his body ….a python four or five feet long can knock a man down if he hits him fairly in the chest, and Kaa was thirty feet long, as you know. His first stroke was delivered into the heart of the crowd round Baloo ….. And then there was no need of a second. The monkeys scattered with cries of 'Kaa! It is Kaa ! Run! Run!'
Answer the following questions:
1. What kind of an animal was Bagheera?
Bagheera was a panther.
2. Where did the monkeys push Mowgli?
The monkeys dragged Mowgli up the wall of the summer house and pushed him down through the hole in the broken dome.
3. How does a python attack?
A python has great fighting strength , it lies in the driving blow of his head backed by all the strength and weight of his body.
4. How do we know that this part of the story takes place at night time?
The first line of the story describes how the cloud hid the moon …. Hence we know that this part of the story took place at night.
5. How do you know that the monkeys were afraid of Kaa?
The monkeys were afraid of Kaa because as soon as he delivered his first stroke the monkeys scattered with cries , they alerted all their friends to run and save their lives.
6. Find a word from the passage that means.
a. Fear - fright
b. breathe heavily - panted
7. Bagheera and the monkeys fight. Instead of just using the word 'fighting', the writer chooses more interesting words, mention any 2 such words from the passage.
Biting, scratching, tearing and pulling.
Directed Writing:
Imagine you are Mowgli and you are telling the jungle animals how Bagheera, Baloo and Kaa rescued you from the monkeys.
How you felt when the monkeys captured you.
How did Bagheera and Baloo fight with the monkeys to rescue you.
What happened when Kaa entered and how you felt when you knew your friends had come to rescue you.
Note: Remember that you were pushed into the summer house at one point in the story so you wouldn't have seen everything, but you must have heard what was going on.
§ Wonder why the monkeys caught me …… they were so many, I had no clue how I would break-free ….. I was terrified … all I could hear was the monkeys chattering ….. They sat around me in circles of fifty and sixty deep ….. I dreaded the thought of escaping from there as I was sure if I move an inch they would all pounce on me and kill me ……… I could only hope for some miracle to save me.
§ As I sat there in the hope of being rescued by one of you I heard Bagheera's light feet on the terrace …… I no more felt weak as I felt assured that Bagheera would surely save me…… (Narrate how Bagheera fought) …… (Describe how Baloo entered & fought)
§ I heard the monkeys running frantically …. Their cries were all I could hear …. I wondered what was happening …. Kaa! Kaa had come to rescue you me …. I heard the monkeys calling out his name. I was more than confident that I shall now be free … hadn't Bagheera, Baloo and Kaa come there I would have surely lost my life … those mischievous monkeys wouldn't have ever let me get out alive …. I can't find words to thank you my friends …. This time again you'll have saved me and given me a new life. You'll are the best family I could have ever had …. I promise never to roam about too far in the jungle alone.
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