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'What orders! panted Akela. 'They are trying to join again. Mowgli slipped on to Rama's back. 'Drive the bulls away to the left, Akela. Gray Brother, when we are gone, hold the cows together, and drive them into the foot of the ravine. 'How far? said Gray Brother, panting and snapping. 'Till the sides are higher than Shere Khan can jump, shouted Mowgli.
"Bagheera spoke truth," he panted, as he nestled down in some cattle fodder by the window of a hut. "To-morrow is one day both for Akela and for me." Then he pressed his face close to the window and watched the fire on the hearth. He saw the husbandman's wife get up and feed it in the night with black lumps.
Akela and Gray Brother ran to and fro nipping the buffaloes' legs, and though the herd wheeled once to charge up the ravine again, Mowgli managed to turn Rama, and the others followed him to the wallows. Shere Khan needed no more trampling. He was dead, and the kites were coming for him already.
Half-way up the hill he met Bagheera with the morning dew shining like moonstones on his coat. 'Akela has missed, said the Panther. 'They would have killed him last night, but they needed thee also. They were looking for thee on the hill. 'I was among the ploughed lands. I am ready. See! Mowgli held up the fire-pot. 'Good!
Of that Looking Over we two only remain; for Raksha, thy lair-mother, is dead with thy lair-father; the old Wolf-Pack is long since dead; thou knowest whither Shere Khan went, and Akela died among the dholes, where, but for thy wisdom and strength, the second Seeonee Pack would also have died. There remains nothing but old bones.
Akela never raised his head from his paws, but went on with the monotonous cry: "Look well!" A muffled roar came up from behind the rocks the voice of Shere Khan crying: "The cub is mine. Give him to me. What have the Free People to do with a man's cub?" Akela never even twitched his ears. All he said was: "Look well, O Wolves!
'Keep them there till we come down. The bulls swept off as Akela bayed, and Gray Brother stopped in front of the cows. They charged down on him, and he ran just before them to the foot of the ravine, as Akela drove the bulls far to the left. 'Well done! Another charge and they are fairly started. Careful, now careful, Akela. A snap too much, and the bulls will charge. Hujah!
Phao and Akela must make ready the battle. I go to count the dogs." "It is death!" Won-tolla cried, half rising. "What can such a hairless one do against the Red Dog? Even the Striped One, remember " "Thou art indeed an Outlier," Mowgli called back; "but we will speak when the dholes are dead. Good hunting all!"
Akela the lone wolf lay by the side of his rock as a sign that the leadership of the Pack was open, and Shere Khan with his following of scrap-fed wolves walked to and fro openly being flattered. Bagheera lay close to Mowgli, and the fire-pot was between Mowgli's knees.
He has kept our Law'; and at last the seniors of the Pack thundered: 'Let the Dead Wolf speak. When a leader of the Pack has missed his kill, he is called the Dead Wolf as long as he lives, which is not long. Akela raised his old head wearily:
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