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He despised and hated them because they did not smell like the Free People, because they did not live in caves, and, above all, because they had hair between their toes while he and his friends were clean-footed. But he knew, for Hathi had told him, what a terrible thing a dhole hunting-pack was.
Won-tolla was fearfully punished, but his grip had paralysed the dhole, who could not turn round and reach him. "By the Bull that bought me," said Mowgli, with a bitter laugh, "it is the tailless one!" And indeed it was the big bay-coloured leader.
"And thus do we do in the Jungle," said Mowgli. Won-tolla said not a word, only his jaws were closing and closing on the backbone as his life ebbed. The dhole shuddered, his head dropped, and he lay still, and Won-tolla dropped above him. "Huh! The Blood Debt is paid," said Mowgli. "Sing the song, Won-tolla." "He hunts no more," said Gray Brother; "and Akela, too, is silent this long time."
"Give me a little strength, Free People, and I also will kill. My lair is empty that was full when this moon was new, and the Blood Debt is not all paid." Phao heard his teeth crack on a haunch-bone and grunted approvingly. "We shall need those jaws," said he. "Were there cubs with the dhole?" "Nay, nay.
At the dawn-wind I found them stiff in the grass four, Free People, four when this moon was new. Then sought I my Blood-Right and found the dhole." "How many?" said Mowgli quickly; the Pack growled deep in their throats. "I do not know. Three of them will kill no more, but at the last they drove me like the buck; on my three legs they drove me. Look, Free People!"
"It is my Word which I have spoken. The Trees know, the River knows. Till the dhole have gone by my Word comes not back to me." "Ngssh! This changes all trails. I had thought to take thee away with me to the northern marshes, but the Word even the Word of a little, naked, hairless Manling is the Word. Now I, Kaa, say " "Think well, Flathead, lest thou tie thyself into the death-knot also.
Therefore I " he raised his voice, "I say that when the dhole come, and if the dhole come, Mowgli and the Free People are of one skin for that hunting; and I say, by the Bull that bought me by the Bull Bagheera paid for me in the old days which ye of the Pack do not remember I say, that the Trees and the River may hear and hold fast if I forget; I say that this my knife shall be as a tooth to the Pack and I do not think it is so blunt.
Again Mowgli dived, and again a dhole went under, and rose dead, and again the clamour broke out at the rear of the pack; some howling that it was best to go ashore, others calling on their leader to lead them back to the Dekkan, and others bidding Mowgli show himself and be killed. "They come to the fight with two stomachs and several voices," said Kaa.
Once Mowgli passed Akela, a dhole on either flank, and his all but toothless jaws closed over the loins of a third; and once he saw Phao, his teeth set in the throat of a dhole, tugging the unwilling beast forward till the yearlings could finish him.
It is probable that the 'dhole' is the principal check on the multiplication of the tiger; and, although incapable individually, or perhaps in small numbers, to effect the destruction of so large and ferocious an animal, may, from their custom of hunting in packs, easily overcome any smaller beast found in the wilds of India.
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