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"He came only two nights later," said Bagheera, cowering a little; "and of that long, sweet grass that pleased thee so he gathered more than any Man-cub could eat in all the nights of the Rains. That was no fault of mine." "He did not come upon the night when I sent him the word. No, he was trumpeting and running and roaring through the valleys in the moonlight.
I die, and I would I would die by thee, Little Brother." Mowgli took the terrible scarred head on his knees, and put his arms round the torn neck. "It is long since the old days of Shere Khan, and a Man-cub that rolled naked in the dust." "Nay, nay, I am a wolf. I am of one skin with the Free People," Mowgli cried. "It is no will of mine that I am a man."
"In whose name, Brother?" Rann had never seen Mowgli before, though of course he had heard of him. "Mowgli, the Frog. Man-cub they call me! Mark my trail!"
All this, man-cub, came of thy playing with the Bandar-log." "True, it is true," said Mowgli sorrowfully. "I am an evil man-cub, and my stomach is sad in me." "Mf! What says the Law of the Jungle, Baloo?" Baloo did not wish to bring Mowgli into any more trouble, but he could not tamper with the Law, so he mumbled: "Sorrow never stays punishment. But remember, Bagheera, he is very little."
Therefore, I ask, who comes to make an end of the Lone Wolf? For it is my right, by the Law of the Jungle, that ye come one by one. There was a long hush, for no single wolf cared to fight Akela to the death. Then Shere Khan roared: 'Bah! what have we to do with this toothless fool? He is doomed to die! It is the man-cub who has lived too long. Free People, he was my meat from the first.
Give him to me. I am weary of this man-wolf folly. He has troubled the jungle for ten seasons. Give me the man-cub, or I will hunt here always, and not give you one bone. He is a man, a man's child, and from the marrow of my bones I hate him! Then more than half the Pack yelled: A man! a man! What has a man to do with us? Let him go to his own place.
But for the sake of the Honor of the Pack, a little matter that by being without a leader ye have forgotten, I promise that if ye let the man-cub go to his own place, I will not, when my time comes to die, bare one tooth against ye. I will die without fighting. That will at least save the Pack three lives.
"Unless and until they drop him from the branches in sport, or kill him out of idleness, I have no fear for the man-cub. He is wise and well taught, and above all he has the eyes that make the Jungle-People afraid. Bagheera licked one forepaw thoughtfully. "Fool that I am!
Why have I never been taken among the Monkey People? They stand on their feet as I do. They do not hit me with their hard paws. They play all day. Let me get up! Bad Baloo, let me up! I will play with them again." "Listen, man-cub," said the Bear, and his voice rumbled like thunder on a hot night.
He waited a little to enjoy the sensation he made among the deer on the opposite to lap, growling: "The jungle has become a whelping-ground for naked cubs now. Look at me, Man-cub!" Mowgli looked stared, rather as insolently as he knew how, and in a minute Shere Khan turned away uneasily.
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