Go home , Red Dog , and cry that an ape has done this . Ye will not go ? Come , then , with me , and I will make you very wise ! '' He moved , Bandar-log fashion , into the next tree , and so on into the next and the next , the Pack following with lifted hungry heads . Now and then he would pretend to fall , and the Pack would tumble one over the other in their haste to be at the death . It was a curious sight -- the boy with the knife that shone in the low sunlight as it sifted through the upper branches , and the silent Pack with their red coats all aflame , huddling and following below . When he came to the last tree he took the garlic and rubbed himself all over carefully , and the dholes yelled with scorn . `` Ape with a wolf 's tongue , dost thou think to cover thy scent ? '' they said . `` We follow to the death . '' `` Take thy tail , '' said Mowgli , flinging it back along the course he had taken . The Pack instinctively rushed after it . `` And follow now -- to the death . '' He had slipped down the tree-trunk , and headed like the wind in bare feet for the Bee Rocks , before the dholes saw what he would do . They gave one deep howl , and settled down to the long , lobbing canter that can at the last run down anything that runs . Mowgli knew their pack-pace to be much slower than that of the wolves , or he would never have risked a two-mile run in full sight . They were sure that the boy was theirs at last , and he was sure that he held them to play with as he pleased . All his trouble was to keep them sufficiently hot behind him to prevent their turning off too soon . He ran cleanly , evenly , and springily ; the tailless leader not five yards behind him ; and the Pack tailing out over perhaps a quarter of a mile of ground , crazy and blind with the rage of slaughter . So he kept his distance by ear , reserving his last effort for the rush across the Bee Rocks .
The Little People had gone to sleep in the early twilight , for it was not the season of late blossoming flowers ; but as XXXXX 's first foot-falls rang hollow on the hollow ground he heard a sound as though all the earth were humming .
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