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"Little Brother" said he, "feel under my jaw."

Mowgli put up his strong brown hand, and just under Bagheera's silky chin, where the giant rolling muscles were all hid by the glossy hair, he came upon a little bald spot.

"There is no one in the jungle that knows that I, Bagheera, carry that mark -- the mark of the collar; and yet, Little Brother, I was born among men, and it was among men that my mother died -- in the cages of the King's Palace at Oodeypore. It was because of this that I paid the price for thee at the Council when thou wast a little naked cub. Yes, I too was born among men. I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera, the Panther, and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw, and came away; and because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan. Is it not so?"

"Yes," said Mowgli; "all the jungle fear Bagheera -- all except Mowgli."

--Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book


A belated happy birthday to one of my favourite authors.
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~AliceGhost Apr 29, 2012
The only decent Bagheera pic on DA. He's spot-on. You captured their relationship very well; he looks strong and proud and very fond of the boy.
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~lyosha May 1, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thank you kindly!
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Mood: Love ~gaggle64 Apr 21, 2012
This is astounding. Stumbled across this researching one all time favourite books for my post-grad essay, always loved this incredibly poignant scene, magnificently captured here.
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~lyosha Apr 23, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thank you. :)
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~Theonewizrobe Mar 27, 2012
As much as I liked the Disney Jungle Book as a kid, it can't hold a candle to the original work. Bagheera was always my favorite character.
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~sherlockholmes34 Mar 20, 2012
This is good. I really liked the Jungle Book, Kipling is one of my favourite writers.
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*ShadeOfPink14 Mar 18, 2012  Hobbyist Artist
THAT MOVIE IS LIKE... MY ENTIRE CHILDHOOD!!!

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~Firefly1910 Mar 7, 2012
Very beautiful

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Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.
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Mood: Love ~conanthewolfboy Feb 23, 2012
That's one of the most amazingly beautiful representations of that very scene, you have just made my day ^^

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There's no such thing as 'the path', there's only 'your path'
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~TiarnanDominusAdonai Jan 20, 2012
"The worth of a dead bull is little, but Bagheera's honor is something we perhaps will fight for."

Superb, just superb. It is so refreshing to see someone who honors The Jungle Book for what it is and not for the "Bare Necessities" version. Looking at this I can only hope to see more like it in the series. Imagine what it would look like when Mowgli was brought to the Cold Lairs by the Bandar-Log, the fight w/ Shere Khan, or even any of the non-Mowgli stories: Kotick, Toomai, or the gentleman himself, Rikki-tikki-tavi?

- Take care, Beannachd Dia Dhuit
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