Now it is time there was a Law , and a Law that ye must not break . Now ye shall know Fear , and when ye have found him ye shall know that he is your master , and the rest shall follow . ' Then we of the jungle said , ` What is Fear ? ' And Tha said , ` Seek till ye find . ' So we went up and down the Jungle seeking for Fear , and presently the buffaloes -- '' `` Ugh ! '' said Mysa , the leader of the buffaloes , from their sand-bank . `` Yes , Mysa , it was the buffaloes . They came back with the news that in a cave in the Jungle sat Fear , and that he had no hair , and went upon his hind legs . Then we of the Jungle followed the herd till we came to that cave , and Fear stood at the mouth of it , and he was , as the buffaloes had said , hairless , and he walked upon his hinder legs . When he saw us he cried out , and his voice filled us with the fear that we have now of that voice when we hear it , and we ran away , tramping upon and tearing each other because we were afraid . That night , so it was told to me , we of the Jungle did not lie down together as used to be our custom , but each tribe drew off by itself -- the pig with the pig , the deer with the deer ; horn to horn , hoof to hoof , -- like keeping to like , and so lay shaking in the Jungle . `` Only the First of the Tigers was not with us , for he was still hidden in the marshes of the North , and when word was brought to him of the Thing we had seen in the cave , he said . ' I will go to this Thing and break his neck . ' So he ran all the night till he came to the cave ; but the trees and the creepers on his path , remembering the order that Tha had given , let down their branches and marked him as he ran , drawing their fingers across his back , his flank , his forehead , and his jowl . Wherever they touched him there was a mark and a stripe upon his yellow hide . AND THOSE STRIPES DO THIS CHILDREN WEAR TO THIS DAY ! When he came to the cave , Fear , the Hairless One , put out his hand and called him ` The Striped One that comes by night , ' and the First of the Tigers was afraid of the Hairless One , and ran back to the swamps howling . '' Mowgli chuckled quietly here , his chin in the water . `` So loud did he howl that Tha heard him and said , ` What is the sorrow ? ' And the First of the Tigers , lifting up his muzzle to the new-made sky , which is now so old , said : ` Give me back my power , O Tha .
I am made ashamed before all the Jungle , and I have run away from a XXXXX One , and he has called me a shameful name . '
First Hairless Law Mowgli Mysa Striped Tha Tigers night sand-bank