Редьярд Киплинг: Маугли / Mowgli

4. Bagheera _______________ him a dozen times with his paw.

5. He fell, _____________, but quietly took the beating.

3. Ответьте на вопросы:

1. What was the first thing Mowgli said, when they had come away from the Cold Lairs?

2. What was Baloo’s reply?

3. What did Bagheera say?

4. What did Bagheera do?

5. What did a beating from Bagheera feel like?

4. Переведите на русский язык:

to climb, to stare, still, a tap, severe, without a word.

Mowgli was now ten years old. Baloo and Bagheera decided that it was time for Mogwli to go to the man village that was on the edge of the jungle. The jungle was not safe for him. Shere Khan continued to hunt for him. He had vowed that he would get him one day.

He was a very cunning tiger. He knew that Akela was getting old and that soon a new, young wolf would become the leader. So Shere Khan prepared a plan. He began to spend more and more time with the young wolf pack, making them believe that he was their friend.

“What do you have to do with a man-cub?” Shere Khan would ask them. “He is not one of you.”

And the young wolves began to agree with him. Bagheera heard all this. He was afraid that the young wolves would drive Mowgli out of the pack, when the time came to choose a new leader.

One day, he spoke to the boy about this. Mowgli would not believe him.

“They will never drive me away,” he said. “I am one of them. We have grown up together, played together and hunted together. I am one of them, Bagheera,” he repeated.

“Mowgli, why do you forget that you are a man-cub? The creatures of the jungle hate man because they fear him. Some of the wolf pack already hate you. Shere Khan has made sure of that. All of them will hate you when you become a man.”

Mowgli could not speak.

“What shall I do?” he asked.

“Go to the village and bring back the red flower. Then all the wolves, no, all the creatures of the jungle, will fear you.”

Mowgli knew the red flower. It was the fire around which the villagers sat on winter nights, or which they carried with them in small pots on cold days when they took their cattle to graze. It was true that all the creatures of the jungle feared it. But Mowgli was not afraid.

1. Переведите на английский язык:

деревня, на краю, хитрый, стая волков, верить, прогонять, принести, горшки, скот.

2. Заполните пропуски словами из списка.

the fire, prepared, safe, hate, to hunt

1. The jungle was not __________ for him.

2. Shere Khan continued ___________ for him.

3. So Shere Khan __________ a plan.

4. The creatures of the jungle ____________ man because they fear him.

5. It was ____________ around which the villagers sat on winter nights.

3. Ответьте на вопросы:

1. Why did Baloo and Bagheera decide that Mowgli should go to the village?

2. What was Shere Khan’s plan?

3. What did Mowgli say, when Bagheera told him about Shere Khan’s plan?

4. What was Mowgli supposed to get back from the village, that would make animals in the jungle fear him?

5. What was the red flower?

4. Переведите на русский язык:

to decide, to vow, to spend, to forget, sure, villagers, cattle, to graze.

Mowgli set off towards the village. A young girl had just come out of the village gate with a pot of fire. Mowgli raced down the hill, snatched the pot away from the girl and disappeared into the jungle. The girl screamed and ran back into the village.

Bagheera was waiting for him.

“Quickly feed it with dry sticks,” he said. “That is what they do in the village.”

Mowgli collected a pile of dry sticks and kept feeding the fire. He carried the red flower, as Bagheera called it, to the Council Rock. Shere Khan was already there.

Mowgli asked the wolf pack, “Are you going to make a tiger your leader? Is he one of you?”

“You are not one of us,” shouted a young wolf. “Then why are you with our pack?”

“Leave the man-cub to me,” growled Shere Khan.

Before anyone could speak, Mowgli picked up his pot of fire and fed it with lots of dry sticks. The fire flared up. He laughed out loudly when he saw Shere Khan jump up and run behind a rock.

“Have you seen how brave your Shere Khan is?” he asked the pack. The wolves too, were trying to get as far away from the fire and Mowgli as they could.

Mowgli said, “I can see that you do not want me with you. I am leaving, but I shall come back, and when I do, I shall come with Shere Khan’s skin.”

He threw some burning sticks at Shere Khan. The tiger disappeared into the jungle. The young wolves hurried behind him.

1. Переведите на английский язык:

ворота, холм, кормить, куча, вспыхнуть, зд. шкура.

2. Заполните пропуски словами из списка.

loudly, disappeared, ran back, collected, towards

1. Mowgli set off ______________ the village.

2. The girl screamed and _____________ into the village.

3. Mowgli ____________ a pile of sticks and kept feeding the fire.

4. He laughed out _____________ when he saw Shere Khan jump up and run behind a rock.

5. The tiger ___________ into the jungle.

3. Ответьте на вопросы:

1. What did Mowgli snatch from the girl?

2. Who was waiting for Mowgli?

3. What did Mowgli collect? Why?

4. What did Mowgli do when he took the red flower to the Council Rock?

5. Was Shere Khan afraid of the red flower?

4. Переведите на русский язык:

to set off, to race down, to snatch, dry sticks.

Mowgli walked to the village. When the villagers saw him at the village gate, they all came out to look at him.

“He’s a wolf-child,” some screamed. “Chase him away.”

But one woman named Messua came and hugged Mowgli.

“This is my child,” she said. “I had lost him when he was a baby.”

The villagers decided that she could keep him, so she took him to her hut. She fed him milk and cared for him. At night, she made a bed for him on a wooden cot. Mowgli lay down on it, but he had never slept on a cot before, so he went out of the hut and lay down outside.

In the middle of the night, he felt a cold nose rubbing his face. He looked up and saw Grey Brother, one of his wolf brothers.

“What is it?” he asked.

“Shere Khan has vowed to kill you.”

“Thank you, Grey Brother. Come again tomorrow night and tell me what is going on in the jungle.”

Grey Brother promised and disappeared into the jungle.

Mowgli was a bright boy, and soon learnt many things in the village. He learnt to speak like the other village boys. He was also allowed to sit at the meetings that the villagers held every evening.