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Mowgli in his latest incarnation is a rather engaging and innocent little boy, more like a cub scout than a cub. As al ways, a zooful of imaginative animals prowls off with the picture. A herd of blimpish elephants looks like a collective reincarnation of Dumbo, while Shere Khan, the fastidious tiger with the voice of George Sanders, is a sly, urbane villain. The snake (vocalized by Sterling Holloway) displays the most imaginative use of coils since the invention of the Slinky...
...shares the disease with rodents, and the germ is carried to man by rat fleas. The West, in its great open spaces, has a zooful of rodents which have become infested with rat fleas, among them prairie dogs, picket-pin gophers, ground squirrels, chipmunks. The Public Health Service called the disease "sylvatic (woodland) plague." It is still bubonic, in the sense that it can cause swelling of the lymph glands of the armpit or groin, but it has become so rare that the word plague could well be dropped...
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