--- title: The Jungle Book, part 18 — The Jungle Book · full text with trees · page 2 description: The Jungle Book, part 18, «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Little Toomai stared again and again. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/page/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jungle Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/) / The Jungle Book, part 18 # The Jungle Book, part 18 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/101/) — The screw-guns are tiny little cannon made in two pieces, that are screwed together when the time comes to use them. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/102/) — They are taken up mountains, anywhere that a mule can find a road, and they are very useful for fighting in rocky country. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/103/) — Behind the mule there was a camel, with his big soft feet squelching and slipping in the mud, and his neck bobbing to and fro like a strayed hen’s. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/104/) — Luckily, I knew enough of beast language--not wild-beast language, but camp-beast language, of course--from the natives to know what he was saying. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/105/) — He must have been the one that flopped into my tent, for he called to the mule, “What shall I do? - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/106/) — Where shall I go? - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/107/) — I have fought with a white thing that waved, and it took a stick and hit me on the neck.” - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/108/) — (That was my broken tent pole, and I was very glad to know it.) - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/109/) — “Shall we run on?” - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/110/) — “Oh, it was you,” said the mule, “you and your friends, that have been disturbing the camp? - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/111/) — All right. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/112/) — You’ll be beaten for this in the morning. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/113/) — But I may as well give you something on account now.” - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/114/) — I heard the harness jingle as the mule backed and caught the camel two kicks in the ribs that rang like a drum. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/115/) — “Another time,” he said, “you’ll know better than to run through a mule battery at night, shouting \`Thieves and fire!’ - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/116/) — Sit down, and keep your silly neck quiet.” - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/117/) — The camel doubled up camel-fashion, like a two-foot rule, and sat down whimpering. - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/118/) — There was a regular beat of hoofs in the darkness, and a big troop-horse cantered up as steadily as though he were on parade, jumped a gun tail, and landed close to the mule. - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/119/) — “It’s disgraceful,” he said, blowing out his nostrils. - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/120/) — “Those camels have racketed through our lines again--the third time this week. - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/121/) — How’s a horse to keep his condition if he isn’t allowed to sleep. - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/122/) — Who’s here?” - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/123/) — “I’m the breech-piece mule of number two gun of the First Screw Battery,” said the mule, “and the other’s one of your friends. - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/124/) — He’s waked me up too. - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/125/) — Who are you?” - [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/126/) — “Number Fifteen, E troop, Ninth Lancers--Dick Cunliffe’s horse. - [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/127/) — Stand over a little, there.” - [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/128/) — “Oh, beg your pardon,” said the mule. - [129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/129/) — “It’s too dark to see much. - [130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/130/) — Aren’t these camels too sickening for anything? - [131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/131/) — I walked out of my lines to get a little peace and quiet here.” - [132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/132/) — “My lords,” said the camel humbly, “we dreamed bad dreams in the night, and we were very much afraid. - [133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/133/) — I am only a baggage camel of the 39th Native Infantry, and I am not as brave as you are, my lords.” - [134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/134/) — “Then why didn’t you stay and carry baggage for the 39th Native Infantry, instead of running all round the camp?” said the mule. - [135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/135/) — “They were such very bad dreams,” said the camel. - [136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/136/) — “I am sorry. - [137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/137/) — Listen! - [138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/138/) — What is that? - [139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/139/) — Shall we run on again?” - [140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/140/) — “Sit down,” said the mule, “or you’ll snap your long stick-legs between the guns.” - [141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/141/) — He cocked one ear and listened. - [142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/142/) — “Bullocks!” he said. - [143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/143/) — “Gun bullocks. - [144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/144/) — On my word, you and your friends have waked the camp very thoroughly. - [145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/145/) — It takes a good deal of prodding to put up a gun-bullock.” - [146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/146/) — I heard a chain dragging along the ground, and a yoke of the great sulky white bullocks that drag the heavy siege guns when the elephants won’t go any nearer to the firing, came shouldering along together. - [147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/147/) — And almost stepping on the chain was another battery mule, calling wildly for “Billy.” [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/) **2** - ← previous: [The Jungle Book, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/17/) - next →: [The Jungle Book, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/)