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 First of the Tigers said , ` They will never fear me , for I knew them since the beginning . ' Tha said , ` Go and see . ' And the First of the Tigers ran to and fro , calling aloud to the deer and the pig and the sambhur and the porcupine and all the Jungle Peoples , and they all ran away from him who had been their judge , because they were afraid . `` Then the First of the Tigers came back , and his pride was broken in him , and , beating his head upon the ground , he tore up the earth with all his feet and said : ` Remember that I was once the Master of the Jungle . Do not forget me , O Tha ! Let my children remember that I was once without shame or fear ! ' And Tha said : ` This much I will do , because thou and I together saw the Jungle made . For one night in each year it shall be as it was before the buck was killed -- for thee and for thy children . In that one night , if ye meet the Hairless One -- and his name is Man -- ye shall not be afraid of him , but he shall be afraid of you , as though ye were judges of the Jungle and masters of all things . Show him mercy in that night of his fear , for thou hast known what Fear is . ' `` Then the First of the Tigers answered , ' I am content ' ; but when next he drank he saw the black stripes upon his flank and his side , and he remembered the name that the Hairless One had given him , and he was angry . For a year he lived in the marshes waiting till Tha should keep his promise . And upon a night when the jackal of the Moon -LSB- the Evening Star -RSB- stood clear of the Jungle , he felt that his Night was upon him , and he went to that cave to meet the Hairless One .
Then it happened as XXXXX promised , for the Hairless One fell down before him and lay along the ground , and the First of the Tigers struck him and broke his back , for he thought that there was but one such Thing in the Jungle , and that he had killed Fear .
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