it said , `` Dhole ! dhole ! dhole ! '' They heard tired feet on the rocks , and a gaunt wolf , streaked with red on his flanks , his right fore-paw useless , and his jaws white with foam , flung himself into the circle and lay gasping at Mowgli 's feet . `` Good hunting ! Under whose Headship ? '' said Phao gravely . `` Good hunting ! Won-tolla am I , '' was the answer . He meant that he was a solitary wolf , fending for himself , his mate , and his cubs in some lonely lair , as do many wolves in the south . Won-tolla means an Outlier -- one who lies out from any Pack . Then he panted , and they could see his heart-beats shake him backward and forward . `` What moves ? '' said Phao , for that is the question all the Jungle asks after the pheeal cries . `` The dhole , the dhole of the Dekkan -- Red Dog , the Killer ! They came north from the south saying the Dekkan was empty and killing out by the way . When this moon was new there were four to me -- my mate and three cubs . She would teach them to kill on the grass plains , hiding to drive the buck , as we do who are of the open . At midnight I heard them together , full tongue on the trail . 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 XXXXX . ''
Dekkan Headship Mowgli Outlier Phao dawn-wind dhole flanks fore-paw lair