CHIL’S SONGThis is the song that Chil sang as the kites dropped down one after another to the river-bed, when the great fight was finished. Chil is good friends with everybody, but he is a cold-blooded kind of creature at heart, because he knows that almost everybody in the Jungle comes to him in the long-run.
hese were my companions going forth by night –
(Chil! Look you, for Chil!)
Now come I to whistle them the ending of the fight.
(Chil! Vanguards of Chil!)
Word they gave me overhead of quarry newly slain,
Word I gave them underfoot of buck upon the plain.
Here’s an end of every trail – they shall not speak again!
They that called the hunting-cry – they that followed fast –
(Chil! Look you, for Chil!)
They that bade the sambhur wheel, and pinned him as he passed –
(Chil! Van
