`` Our Frog has come back again -- so wise that his own father must lick his feet ; and what is a cut , more or less , on the head ? Leave Men alone . '' Baloo and Bagheera both echoed : `` Leave Men alone . '' Mowgli , his head on Mother Wolf 's side , smiled contentedly , and said that , for his own part , he never wished to see , or hear , or smell Man again . `` But what , '' said Akela , cocking one ear -- `` but what if men do not leave thee alone , Little Brother ? '' `` We be FIVE , '' said Gray Brother , looking round at the company , and snapping his jaws on the last word . `` We also might attend to that hunting , '' said Bagheera , with a little switch-switch of his tail , looking at Baloo . `` But why think of men now , Akela ? '' `` For this reason , '' the Lone Wolf answered : `` when that yellow chief 's hide was hung up on the rock , I went back along our trail to the village , stepping in my tracks , turning aside , and lying down , to make a mixed trail in case one should follow us . But when I had fouled the trail so that I myself hardly knew it again , Mang , the Bat , came hawking between the trees , and hung up above me . '' Said Mang , `` The village of the Man-Pack , where they cast out the Man-cub , hums like a hornet 's nest . '' `` It was a big stone that I threw , '' chuckled Mowgli , who had often amused himself by throwing ripe paw-paws into a hornet 's nest , and racing off to the nearest pool before the hornets caught him . `` I asked of Mang what he had seen . He said that the Red Flower blossomed at the gate of the village , and men sat about it carrying guns . Now I know , for I have good cause , '' -- Akela looked down at the old dry scars on his flank and side , -- `` that men do not carry guns for pleasure . Presently , Little Brother , a man with a gun follows our trail -- if , indeed , he be not already on it . '' `` But why should he ? Men have cast me out . What more do they need ? '' said Mowgli angrily .
`` Thou art a man , Little Brother , '' XXXXX returned .
Akela Bagheera Baloo Brother Flower Man-cub Mang Mowgli Wolf paw-paws