Let nor call nor song nor sign Turn thee from thy hunting-line. Make no bandar's boast of skill Hold thy peace above the kill. Feed them silence when they say: 'Come with us an easy way.' Feed them silence when they seek Help of thine to hurt the weak. Pack or council, hunt or den, Cry no truce with Jackal-Men. By the Broken Lock that freed- Man-cub, ware the Man-cub's breed! Scenting-dew or starlight pale, Choose no tangled tree-cat trail. (Pit and rift and blue pool-brim, Middle-Jungle follow him!) Wood and Water, Wind and Tree, Jungle-Favour go with thee! Bagheera In the cage my life began Well I know the worth of Man. East and West and North and South, Wash thy hide and close thy mouth. After gorging, wouldst thou sleep ? Look thy den be hid and deep, Lest a wrong, by thee forgot, Draw thy killer to the spot. Gauge thy gape with buck or goat, Lest thine eye should choke thy throat. Open talk shall call to thee Strength, whose mate is Courtesy. Cobra-poison none may leech- Even so with Cobra-speech. (Root and honey, palm and spathe, Guard a cub from harm and scathe!) Wood and Water, Wind and Tree, Jungle-Favour go with thee! Kaa Anger is the egg of Fear- Only lidless eyes see clear. Remember the Wolf is a Hunter go forth and. And remember the night is for hunting, and forget not the day is for sleep.

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack. For the sake of him who loves Thee beyond all else that moves, When thy Pack would make thee pain, Say: ' Tabaqui sings again.' When thy Pack would work thee ill, Say: 'Shere Khan is yet to kill.' When the knife is drawn to slay, Keep the Law and go thy way. And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. Baloo For the sake of him who showed One wise Frog the Jungle-Road, Keep the Law the Man-Pack make For thy blind old Baloo's sake! Clean or tainted, hot or stale, Hold it as it were the Trail, Through the day and through the night, Questing neither left nor right.

Law of the jungle rudyard kipling