THE JUNGLE BABY - A Children's Jungle Tale from Old India E-Book

G. E. Farrow

• Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

There was once a little European baby boy called Bab-ba, he had bright blue eyes and golden curls, and he had an Indian Ayah  for his nurse. She had been with Bab-ba ever since he was baby in long robes, and she was very fond of him. Her name was Jeejee-walla, but the everyone  called her Ayah.
Bab-ba’s Father was a British Officer in India, and they lived in a beautiful white house on the Simla Hills in Northern India. The house had a big verandah running all around it. Round about the verandah was a garden, and outside the garden the jungle stretched for miles and miles, and in the jungle were all sorts of beasts and birds, including Hoodoo the snake who was always up to something.
One day Hoodoo happened to visit Bab-ba’s garden and happened to spy Bab-Ba playing with Ayah, Mioux-Mioux the cat and Woof-Woof the dog. Hoodoo lay in the sun and watched and hatched an evil plan………
What was the plan you ask? Well you’ll have to download and read this book to find out for yourself!
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George Edward Farrow born in Ipswich in England, was a noted British children's book author of whose life little is known. During his literary career Farrow wrote more than thirty books for children.
Though he wrote adventure tales and poetry, Farrow was best known for his nonsense books written in the tradition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, especially his Wallypug series
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Leseprobe

Original Front Page

The Jungle Baby

by

G.E. Farrow

Illustrated by

E.M. & M.F. Taylor

Originally Published by

Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd.

London · Paris · Berlin · New York

[1900]

Resurrected by

Abela Publishing, London

[2019]

The Jungle Baby

Typographical arrangement of this edition

© Abela Publishing 2018

This book may not be reproduced in its current format in any manner in any media, or transmitted by any means whatsoever, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, or mechanical ( including photocopy, file or video recording, internet web sites, blogs, wikis, or any other information storage and retrieval system) except as permitted by law without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Abela Publishing,

London

United Kingdom

2018

ISBN-13: 978-X-XXXXXX-XX-X

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Website

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here was once a little European baby boy called Bab-ba, he had bright blue eyes and golden curls, and he had an Indian Ayah for his nurse. She had been with Bab-ba ever since he was quite a tiny baby in long robes, and she was very fond of him. Her name was Jeejee-walla, but they just called her Ayah.

ab-ba’s Father was a British Officer in India, and they lived in a beautiful white house on the Simla Hills in Northern India, which had a big verandah running all around it. Round about the verandah was a garden, and outside the garden the jungle stretched for miles and miles, and in the jungle were all sorts of beasts and birds.

ittle Bab-ba used to play on the verandah with his pets, Mioux-Mioux, the cat, and Wooff-Wooff, the dog, and they both loved him very dearly. Mioux-Mioux never scratched him when he accidentally pulled her tail, although she felt very much like doing so; and Wooff-Wooff used to stand on his hind legs and perform all sorts of funny tricks to make Bab-ba laugh.

very morning after breakfast Bab-ba threw bread crumbs out to the little birds on the lawn, and they used to sit in the trees and watch for him, and sing about him till he came out of the house. “Good little Bab-ba, who gives us our food,” one would sing; and “We all love little Bab-ba,” several of the others would reply from another part of the garden.

Mioux-Mioux used to watch them out of the corner of her eyes, but she never attempted to catch them because she knew that Bab-ba loved them; and Wooff-Wooff used to sit with his head on one side and wonder however they managed with only two legs and not four like his.

ut one day when Bab-ba was feeding the birdies, the big snake Hoodo, who lived in the garden, came creeping under the verandah and tried to catch some of the birds while they were eating, but Bab-ba saw him and called out!—

“Go away, bad Hoodo, go away!”

and his Ayah heard him and came running out to see what was the matter.

hen she saw Hoodo, the big snake, she caught Bab-ba up in her arms and ran with him into the house. Two of the men servants came out with big sticks and beat Hoodo over the head and body till he could hardly crawl away again into his hole under a big tree in the garden.

ow Hoodo was a very wicked snake, and was very angry about all this, and he thought and thought about it, and wondered how he could be revenged on little Bab-ba, for he put all that had occurred down to him, and so one day, after he had got better he went out into the jungle to see an old friend of his, Tig, the Tiger, and talk the matter over with him.

oodo thought that Tig the Tiger was as greedy and cruel as he was himself, and so he asked him how he would like a little white fat baby boy for his dinner, and Tig licked his lips and said, “H’M! we shall see.”