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Updated: June 14, 2025
Gray Brother trotted off and dropped into a hole. Then there lifted up a huge gray head that Mowgli knew well, and the hot air was filled with the most desolate cry of all the jungle the hunting howl of a wolf at midday. "Akela! Akela!" said Mowgli, clapping his hands. "I might have known that thou wouldst not forget me. We have a big work in hand. Cut the herd in two, Akela.
The fire was burning furiously at the end of the branch, and Mowgli struck right and left round the circle, and the wolves ran howling with the sparks burning their fur. At last there were only Akela, Bagheera, and perhaps ten wolves that had taken Mowgli's part.
Ye know how ye brought me up to an untried buck to make my weakness known. It was cleverly done. Your right is to kill me here on the Council Rock, now. 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!
"I did not know these things," said Mowgli sullenly, and he frowned under his heavy black eyebrows. "What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue. By thy very carelessness they know that thou art a man. But be wise. It is in my heart that when Akela misses his next kill and at each hunt it costs him more to pin the buck the Pack will turn against him and against thee.
'And turn all the people of the villages against us? clamoured Shere Khan. 'No; give him to me. He is a man, and none of us can look him between the eyes. Akela lifted his head again, and said: 'He has eaten our food. He has slept with us. He has driven game for us. He has broken no word of the Law of the Jungle. 'Also, I paid for him with a Bull when he was accepted.
But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down. 'O Akela, and ye the Free People, he purred, 'I have no right in your assembly; but the Law of the Jungle says that if there is a doubt which is not a killing matter in regard to a new cub, the life of that cub may be bought at a price. And the Law does not say who may or may not pay that price.
Fare you well, children of men, and thank Messua that I do not come in with my wolves and hunt you up and down your street. He turned on his heel and walked away with the Lone Wolf; and as he looked up at the stars he felt happy. 'No more sleeping in traps for me, Akela. Let us get Shere Khan's skin and go away. No; we will not hurt the village, for Messua was kind to me.
This is wilder work than driving black-buck. Didst thou think these creatures could move so swiftly? Mowgli called. 'I have have hunted these too in my time, gasped Akela in the dust. 'Shall I turn them into the jungle? 'Ay! Turn. Swiftly turn them! Rama is mad with rage. Oh, if I could only tell him what I need of him today.
"And after," he went on, "they will find me lying in the black water. Nay, I will go back to my own Jungle, and I will die upon the Council Rock, and Bagheera, whom I love, if he is not screaming in the valley Bagheera, perhaps, may watch by what is left for a little, lest Chil use me as he used Akela."
Gray Brother, canst thou cut the herd in two for me? 'Not I, perhaps but I have brought a wise helper. Gray Brother trotted off and dropped into a hole. Then there lifted up a huge gray head that Mowgli knew well, and the hot air was filled with the most desolate cry of all the jungle the hunting-howl of a wolf at mid-day. 'Akela! Akela! said Mowgli, clapping his hands.
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