WE know our own minds . The skull would have been ready to bring by now . '' Mowgli had been looking from one to the other of his friends , his chest heaving and his eyes full of tears . He strode forward to the wolves , and , dropping on one knee , said : `` Do I not know my mind ? 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 . `` Follow , then , '' said Mowgli , and the four followed at his heels with their tails between their legs . `` This comes of living with the Man-Pack , '' said Bagheera , slipping down after them . `` There is more in the Jungle now than Jungle Law , Baloo . '' The old bear said nothing , but he thought many things . Mowgli cut across noiselessly through the Jungle , at right angles to Buldeo 's path , till , parting the undergrowth , he saw the old man , his musket on his shoulder , running up the trail of overnight at a dog-trot . You will remember that Mowgli had left the village with the heavy weight of Shere Khan 's raw hide on his shoulders , while Akela and Gray Brother trotted behind , so that the triple trail was very clearly marked . Presently Buldeo came to where Akela , as you know , had gone back and mixed it all up . Then he sat down , and coughed and grunted , and made little casts round and about into the Jungle to pick it up again , and , all the time he could have thrown a stone over those who were watching him . No one can be so silent as a wolf when he does not care to be heard ; and Mowgli , though the wolves thought he moved very clumsily , could come and go like a shadow . They ringed the old man as a school of porpoises ring a steamer at full speed , and as they ringed him they talked unconcernedly , for their speech began below the lowest end of the scale that untrained human beings can hear . -LSB- The other end is bounded by the high squeak of Mang , the Bat , which very many people can not catch at all . From that note all the bird and bat and insect talk takes on . -RSB-
`` This is better than any kill , '' said Gray XXXXX , as Buldeo stooped and peered and puffed .
Akela Bagheera Baloo Brother Buldeo Khan Mang Mowgli dog-trot overnight