--- title: The Jungle Book, part 19 — The Jungle Book · full text with trees description: The Jungle Book, part 19, «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: “That’s one of our recruits,” said the old mule to the troop horse. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/) [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 19 # The Jungle Book, part 19 The Jungle Book, part 19 of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling: the whole text, 195 sentences and 2675 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/page/2/) - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/1/) — “That’s one of our recruits,” said the old mule to the troop horse. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/2/) — “He’s calling for me. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/3/) — Here, youngster, stop squealing. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/4/) — The dark never hurt anybody yet.” - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/5/) — The gun-bullocks lay down together and began chewing the cud, but the young mule huddled close to Billy. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/6/) — “Things!” he said. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/7/) — “Fearful and horrible, Billy! - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/8/) — They came into our lines while we were asleep. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/9/) — D’you think they’ll kill us?” - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/10/) — “I’ve a very great mind to give you a number-one kicking,” said Billy. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/11/) — “The idea of a fourteen-hand mule with your training disgracing the battery before this gentleman!” - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/12/) — “Gently, gently!” said the troop-horse. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/13/) — “Remember they are always like this to begin with. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/14/) — The first time I ever saw a man (it was in Australia when I was a three-year-old) I ran for half a day, and if I’d seen a camel, I should have been running still.” - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/15/) — Nearly all our horses for the English cavalry are brought to India from Australia, and are broken in by the troopers themselves. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/16/) — “True enough,” said Billy. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/17/) — “Stop shaking, youngster. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/18/) — The first time they put the full harness with all its chains on my back I stood on my forelegs and kicked every bit of it off. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/19/) — I hadn’t learned the real science of kicking then, but the battery said they had never seen anything like it.” - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/20/) — “But this wasn’t harness or anything that jingled,” said the young mule. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/21/) — “You know I don’t mind that now, Billy. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/22/) — It was Things like trees, and they fell up and down the lines and bubbled; and my head-rope broke, and I couldn’t find my driver, and I couldn’t find you, Billy, so I ran off with--with these gentlemen.” - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/23/) — “H’m!” said Billy. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/24/) — “As soon as I heard the camels were loose I came away on my own account. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/25/) — When a battery--a screw-gun mule calls gun-bullocks gentlemen, he must be very badly shaken up. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/26/) — Who are you fellows on the ground there?” - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/27/) — The gun bullocks rolled their cuds, and answered both together: “The seventh yoke of the first gun of the Big Gun Battery. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/28/) — We were asleep when the camels came, but when we were trampled on we got up and walked away. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/29/) — It is better to lie quiet in the mud than to be disturbed on good bedding. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/30/) — We told your friend here that there was nothing to be afraid of, but he knew so much that he thought otherwise. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/31/) — Wah!” - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/32/) — They went on chewing. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/33/) — “That comes of being afraid,” said Billy. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/34/) — “You get laughed at by gun-bullocks. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/35/) — I hope you like it, young un.” - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/36/) — The young mule’s teeth snapped, and I heard him say something about not being afraid of any beefy old bullock in the world. - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/37/) — But the bullocks only clicked their horns together and went on chewing. - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/38/) — “Now, don’t be angry after you’ve been afraid. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/39/) — That’s the worst kind of cowardice,” said the troop-horse. - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/40/) — “Anybody can be forgiven for being scared in the night, I think, if they see things they don’t understand. - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/41/) — We’ve broken out of our pickets, again and again, four hundred and fifty of us, just because a new recruit got to telling tales of whip snakes at home in Australia till we were scared to death of the loose ends of our head-ropes.” - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/42/) — “That’s all very well in camp,” said Billy. - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/43/) — “I’m not above stampeding myself, for the fun of the thing, when I haven’t been out for a day or two. - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/44/) — But what do you do on active service?” - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/45/) — “Oh, that’s quite another set of new shoes,” said the troop horse. - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/46/) — “Dick Cunliffe’s on my back then, and drives his knees into me, and all I have to do is to watch where I am putting my feet, and to keep my hind legs well under me, and be bridle-wise.” - [47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/47/) — “What’s bridle-wise?” said the young mule. - [48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/48/) — “By the Blue Gums of the Back Blocks,” snorted the troop-horse, “do you mean to say that you aren’t taught to be bridle-wise in your business? - [49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/49/) — How can you do anything, unless you can spin round at once when the rein is pressed on your neck? - [50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/50/) — It means life or death to your man, and of course that’s life and death to you. - [51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/51/) — Get round with your hind legs under you the instant you feel the rein on your neck. - [52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/52/) — If you haven’t room to swing round, rear up a little and come round on your hind legs. - [53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/53/) — That’s being bridle-wise.” - [54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/54/) — “We aren’t taught that way,” said Billy the mule stiffly. - [55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/55/) — “We’re taught to obey the man at our head: step off when he says so, and step in when he says so. - [56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/56/) — I suppose it comes to the same thing. - [57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/57/) — Now, with all this fine fancy business and rearing, which must be very bad for your hocks, what do you do?” - [58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/58/) — “That depends,” said the troop-horse. - [59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/59/) — “Generally I have to go in among a lot of yelling, hairy men with knives--long shiny knives, worse than the farrier’s knives--and I have to take care that Dick’s boot is just touching the next man’s boot without crushing it. - [60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/60/) — I can see Dick’s lance to the right of my right eye, and I know I’m safe. - [61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/61/) — I shouldn’t care to be the man or horse that stood up to Dick and me when we’re in a hurry.” - [62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/62/) — “Don’t the knives hurt?” said the young mule. - [63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/63/) — “Well, I got one cut across the chest once, but that wasn’t Dick’s fault--” - [64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/64/) — “A lot I should have cared whose fault it was, if it hurt!” said the young mule. - [65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/65/) — “You must,” said the troop horse. - [66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/66/) — “If you don’t trust your man, you may as well run away at once. - [67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/67/) — That’s what some of our horses do, and I don’t blame them. - [68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/68/) — As I was saying, it wasn’t Dick’s fault. - [69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/69/) — The man was lying on the ground, and I stretched myself not to tread on him, and he slashed up at me. - [70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/70/) — Next time I have to go over a man lying down I shall step on him--hard.” - [71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/71/) — “H’m!” said Billy. - [72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/72/) — “It sounds very foolish. - [73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/73/) — Knives are dirty things at any time. - [74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/74/) — The proper thing to do is to climb up a mountain with a well-balanced saddle, hang on by all four feet and your ears too, and creep and crawl and wriggle along, till you come out hundreds of feet above anyone else on a ledge where there’s just room enough for your hoofs. - [75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/75/) — Then you stand still and keep quiet--never ask a man to hold your head, young un--keep quiet while the guns are being put together, and then you watch the little poppy shells drop down into the tree-tops ever so far below.” - [76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/76/) — “Don’t you ever trip?” said the troop-horse. - [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/77/) — “They say that when a mule trips you can split a hen’s ear,” said Billy. - [78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/78/) — “Now and again perhaps a badly packed saddle will upset a mule, but it’s very seldom. - [79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/79/) — I wish I could show you our business. - [80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/80/) — It’s beautiful. - [81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/81/) — Why, it took me three years to find out what the men were driving at. - [82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/82/) — The science of the thing is never to show up against the sky line, because, if you do, you may get fired at. - [83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/83/) — Remember that, young un. - [84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/84/) — Always keep hidden as much as possible, even if you have to go a mile out of your way. - [85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/85/) — I lead the battery when it comes to that sort of climbing.” - [86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/86/) — “Fired at without the chance of running into the people who are firing!” said the troop-horse, thinking hard. - [87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/87/) — “I couldn’t stand that. - [88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/88/) — I should want to charge--with Dick.” - [89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/89/) — “Oh, no, you wouldn’t. - [90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/90/) — You know that as soon as the guns are in position they’ll do all the charging. - [91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/91/) — That’s scientific and neat. - [92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/92/) — But knives--pah!” - [93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/93/) — The baggage-camel had been bobbing his head to and fro for some time past, anxious to get a word in edgewise. - [94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/94/) — Then I heard him say, as he cleared his throat, nervously: - [95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/95/) — “I--I--I have fought a little, but not in that climbing way or that running way.” - [96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/96/) — “No. Now you mention it,” said Billy, “you don’t look as though you were made for climbing or running--much. - [97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/97/) — Well, how was it, old Hay-bales?” - [98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/98/) — “The proper way,” said the camel. - [99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/99/) — “We all sat down--” - [100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/100/) — “Oh, my crupper and breastplate!” said the troop-horse under his breath. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/19/page/2/) - ← previous: [The Jungle Book, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/18/) - next →: [The Jungle Book, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/20/) - ↑ back to [The Jungle Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/)