This is a series of caches on the route I walk my little dog Bumble, when my wife does the shopping.
I hope they are varied and fun for all those who look for them.
This Cache is named after “Mowgli” because as I was setting it up I came across a Little Frog
Mowgli is a character whose stories, were written by Rudyard Kipling
Many people will know the basic story, Especially those who have ever been in the Wolf Cubs or Scout
Kipling proceeded to write the stories of Mowgli's childhood in detail. Lost by his parents as a baby in the Indian jungle during a tiger attack, he is adopted by the Wolf Mother "Raksha" and Father_Wolf, who call him Mowgli which was supposed to mean “little frog” because of his lack of fur and his refusal to sit still. Shere Khan the Tiger demands that they give him the baby but the wolves refuse. Mowgli grows up with the pack, hunting with his brother wolves. In the pack, Mowgli learns he is able to stare down any wolf, and his unique ability to remove the painful thorns from the paws of his brothers is deeply appreciated as well. Bagheera the black panther, befriends Mowgli because both he and Mowgli have parallel childhood experiences; as Bagheera often mentions, he was "raised in the King cages at Oodeypore from a cub, and thus knows the ways of man. Baloo the bear teacher of wolves, has the thankless task of educating Mowgli in the law of the jungle. Shere Khan continues to regard Mowgli as fair game, but eventually Mowgli finds a weapon he can use against the tiger, fire. After driving off Shere Khan, Mowgli goes to a human village where he is adopted by Messus and her husband, whose own son Nathoo was also taken by a tiger. It is uncertain if Mowgli is actually the returned Nathoo, although it is stated in one story that the tiger who carried off Messua son was similar to the one that attacked Mowgli's parents. Messua would like to believe that her son has returned, however, she herself realises that this is unlikely.
While herding buffalo for the village, Mowgli learns that the tiger is still planning to kill him, so with the aid of two wolves, he traps Shere Khan in a ravine where the buffalo trample him. The tiger dies and Mowgli sets to skin him. After being cast out of the village after being accused of witchcraft, Mowgli returns to the jungle with Shere Khan's hide and reunites with his wolf family.
In later stories Mowgli learns that the villagers are planning to kill Messua and her husband for harbouring him. He rescues them and sends elephants, water buffaloes, and other animals to trample the village and its fields to the ground. Later, finds and then discards an ancient treasure The King Ankusha not realising it is so valuable that men would kill to own it. With the aid of Kaa the Python he leads the wolves in a war against the Dhole "Red Dogs". Finally, Mowgli stumbles across the village where his adopted human mother (Messua) is now living, which forces him to come to terms with his humanity and decide whether to rejoin his fellow humans in