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How, then, shall I believe the tales of ghosts and gods and goblins which he says he has seen?" "It is full time that boy went to herding," said the head-man, while Buldeo puffed and snorted at Mowgli's impertinence. The custom of most Indian villages is for a few boys to take the cattle and buffaloes out to graze in the early morning, and bring them back at night.
Look at me!" They looked uneasily, and when their eyes wandered, he called them back again and again, till their hair stood up all over their bodies, and they trembled in every limb, while Mowgli stared and stared. "Now," said he, "of us five, which is leader?" "Thou art leader, Little Brother," said Gray Brother, and he licked Mowgli's foot.
What is in thy stomach?" Kaa's head was close to Mowgli's ear; and it was a little time before the boy answered. "It is to pull the very whiskers of Death, but Kaa, thou art, indeed, the wisest of all the Jungle." "So many have said. Look now, if the dhole follow thee " "As surely they will follow. Ho! ho! I have many little thorns under my tongue to prick into their hides."
But as the author brooded over the incidents of Mowgli's babyhood there in the thick of the forest, in the midst of the beasts, whose blood-brother he became, suddenly his imagination revealed to him that the jungle and all its inhabitants must be governed by law, or else it was a realm of chaos.
Mowgli tucked his left arm round Kaa's neck, dropped his right close to his body, and straightened his feet. Then Kaa breasted the current as he alone could, and the ripple of the checked water stood up in a frill round Mowgli's neck, and his feet were waved to and fro in the eddy under the python's lashing sides.
In that first tale, which is now the last, we have set before us the impression Mowgli and his little brothers, the wolves, made upon two white men in the Indian service; and incidentally we are permitted to snatch a glimpse or two of Mowgli's youth in the jungle.
"By night or by day this door is never shut to thee." Mowgli's throat worked as though the cords in it were being pulled, and his voice seemed to be dragged from it as he answered, "I will surely come back." "And now," he said, as he put by the head of the fawning wolf on the threshold, "I have a little cry against thee, Gray Brother. Why came ye not all four when I called so long ago?"
Next instant the street was empty; Bagheera had leaped back through the window, and stood at Mowgli's side, while a yelling, screaming torrent scrambled and tumbled one over another in their panic haste to get to their own huts. "They will not stir till day comes," said Bagheera quietly. "And now?"
Messua drew aside humbly he was indeed a wood-god, she thought; but as his hand was on the door the mother in her made her throw her arms round Mowgli's neck again and again. "Come back!" she whispered. "Son or no son, come back, for I love thee Look, he too grieves." The child was crying because the man with the shiny knife was going away. "Come back again," Messua repeated.
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.
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