`` Last night I killed a bullock under the yoke . So low was I brought that I think I should not have dared to spring if he had been loose . WOU ! '' Mowgli laughed . `` Yes , we be great hunters now , '' said he . `` I am very bold -- to eat grubs , '' and the two came down together through the crackling undergrowth to the river-bank and the lace-work of shoals that ran out from it in every direction . `` The water can not live long , '' said Baloo , joining them . `` Look across . Yonder are trails like the roads of Man . '' On the level plain of the farther bank the stiff jungle-grass had died standing , and , dying , had mummied . The beaten tracks of the deer and the pig , all heading toward the river , had striped that colourless plain with dusty gullies driven through the ten-foot grass , and , early as it was , each long avenue was full of first-comers hastening to the water . You could hear the does and fawns coughing in the snuff-like dust . Up-stream , at the bend of the sluggish pool round the Peace Rock , and Warden of the Water Truce , stood Hathi , the wild elephant , with his sons , gaunt and gray in the moonlight , rocking to and fro -- always rocking . Below him a little were the vanguard of the deer ; below these , again , the pig and the wild buffalo ; and on the opposite bank , where the tall trees came down to the water 's edge , was the place set apart for the Eaters of Flesh -- the tiger , the wolves , the panther , the bear , and the others . `` We are under one Law , indeed , '' said Bagheera , wading into the water and looking across at the lines of clicking horns and starting eyes where the deer and the pig pushed each other to and fro . `` Good hunting , all you of my blood , '' he added , lying own at full length , one flank thrust out of the shallows ; and then , between his teeth , `` But for that which is the Law it would be VERY good hunting . '' The quick-spread ears of the deer caught the last sentence , and a frightened whisper ran along the ranks . `` The Truce ! Remember the Truce ! '' `` Peace there , peace ! ''
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