In the beginning of the Jungle , and none know when that was , we of the Jungle walked together , having no fear of one another . In those days there was no drought , and leaves and flowers and fruit grew on the same tree , and we ate nothing at all except leaves and flowers and grass and fruit and bark . '' `` I am glad I was not born in those days , '' said Bagheera . `` Bark is only good to sharpen claws . '' `` And the Lord of the Jungle was Tha , the First of the Elephants . He drew the Jungle out of deep waters with his trunk ; and where he made furrows in the ground with his tusks , there the rivers ran ; and where he struck with his foot , there rose ponds of good water ; and when he blew through his trunk , -- thus , -- the trees fell . That was the manner in which the Jungle was made by Tha ; and so the tale was told to me . '' `` It has not lost fat in the telling , '' Bagheera whispered , and Mowgli laughed behind his hand . `` In those days there was no corn or melons or pepper or sugar-cane , nor were there any little huts such as ye have all seen ; and the Jungle People knew nothing of Man , but lived in the Jungle together , making one people . But presently they began to dispute over their food , though there was grazing enough for all . They were lazy . Each wished to eat where he lay , as sometimes we can do now when the spring rains are good . Tha , the First of the Elephants , was busy making new jungles and leading the rivers in their beds . He could not walk in all places ; therefore he made the First of the Tigers the master and the judge of the Jungle , to whom the Jungle People should bring their disputes . In those days the First of the Tigers ate fruit and grass with the others . He was as large as I am , and he was very beautiful , in colour all over like the blossom of the yellow creeper . There was never stripe nor bar upon his hide in those good days when this the Jungle was new . All the Jungle People came before him without fear , and his word was the Law of all the Jungle . We were then , remember ye , one people . `` Yet upon a night there was a dispute between two bucks -- a grazing-quarrel such as ye now settle with the horns and the fore-feet -- and it is said that as the two spoke together before the First of the First of the Tigers lying among the flowers , a buck pushed him with his horns , and the First of the Tigers forgot that he was the master and judge of the Jungle , and , leaping upon that buck , broke his neck .
`` Till that night never one of us had died , and the First of the Tigers , seeing what he had done , and being made foolish by the scent of the blood , ran away into the marshes of the North , and we of the Jungle , left without a judge , fell to fighting among ourselves ; and XXXXX heard the noise of it and came back .
Bagheera First Law Mowgli Tha Tigers colour days fore-feet night