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 Hairless One , and he has called me a shameful name . ' ` And why ? ' said Tha . ` Because I am smeared with the mud of the marshes , ' said the First of the Tigers . ` Swim , then , and roll on the wet grass , and if it be mud it will wash away , ' said Tha ; and the First of the Tigers swam , and rolled and rolled upon the grass , till the Jungle ran round and round before his eyes , but not one little bar upon all his hide was changed , and Tha , watching him , laughed . Then the First of the Tigers said : ` What have I done that this comes to me ? ' Tha said , ` Thou hast killed the buck , and thou hast let Death loose in the Jungle , and with Death has come Fear , so that the people of the Jungle are afraid one of the other , as thou art afraid of the Hairless One . '
The XXXXX of the Tigers said , ` They will never fear me , for I knew them since the beginning . '
Death First Hairless Mowgli Striped Tha Tigers buffaloes night tribe