Here was some little difficulty with the catch of the door . It had been very firmly fastened , but the crowd tore it away bodily , and the light of the torches streamed into the room where , stretched at full length on the bed , his paws crossed and lightly hung down over one end , black as the Pit , and terrible as a demon , was Bagheera . There was one half-minute of desperate silence , as the front ranks of the crowd clawed and tore their way back from the threshold , and in that minute Bagheera raised his head and yawned -- elaborately , carefully , and ostentatiously -- as he would yawn when he wished to insult an equal . The fringed lips drew back and up ; the red tongue curled ; the lower jaw dropped and dropped till you could see half-way down the hot gullet ; and the gigantic dog-teeth stood clear to the pit of the gums till they rang together , upper and under , with the snick of steel-faced wards shooting home round the edges of a safe . Next instant the street was empty ; Bagheera had leaped back through the window , and stood at Mowgli 's side , while a yelling , screaming torrent scrambled and tumbled one over another in their panic haste to get to their own huts . `` They will not stir till day comes , '' said Bagheera quietly . `` And now ? '' The silence of the afternoon sleep seemed to have overtaken the village ; but , as they listened , they could hear the sound of heavy grain-boxes being dragged over earthen floors and set down against doors . Bagheera was quite right ; the village would not stir till daylight . Mowgli sat still , and thought , and his face grew darker and darker . `` What have I done ? '' said Bagheera , at last coming to his feet , fawning . `` Nothing but great good . Watch them now till the day . I sleep . '' Mowgli ran off into the Jungle , and dropped like a dead man across a rock , and slept and slept the day round , and the night back again . When he waked , Bagheera was at his side , and there was a newly-killed buck at his feet . Bagheera watched curiously while Mowgli went to work with his skinning-knife , ate and drank , and turned over with his chin in his hands . `` The man and the woman are come safe within eye-shot of Khanhiwara , '' Bagheera said . `` Thy lair mother sent the word back by Chil , the Kite .
They found a horse before midnight of the XXXXX they were freed , and went very quickly .
Chil Khanhiwara afternoon day daylight grain-boxes half-minute night right skinning-knife