Billy the jungle book Quotes

“He’s calling for me. Here, youngster, stop squealing. The dark never hurt anybody yet.”

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. 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.”

Always keep hidden as much as possible, even if you have to go a mile out of your way.

“I suppose you fellows fight standing on your tails?”

“everyone is not made in the same way, and I can quite see that your family, on your father’s side, would fail to understand a great many things.”

“I don’t want to run, but I don’t want to talk about it.”

I should be a king in the forest, as I used to be, sleeping half the day and bathing when I liked.

“What I want to know,” said the young mule, who had been quiet for a long time—“what I want to know is, why we have to fight at all.”