` He is as the buck was . There is no Fear . Now I will judge the Jungle Peoples once more . ' `` And Tha said : ` Never again shall the Jungle Peoples come to thee . They shall never cross thy trail , nor sleep near thee , nor follow after thee , nor browse by thy lair . Only Fear shall follow thee , and with a blow that thou canst not see he shall bid thee wait his pleasure . He shall make the ground to open under thy feet , and the creeper to twist about thy neck , and the tree-trunks to grow together about thee higher than thou canst leap , and at the last he shall take thy hide to wrap his cubs when they are cold . Thou hast shown him no mercy , and none will he show thee . ' `` The First of the Tigers was very bold , for his Night was still on him , and he said : ` The Promise of Tha is the Promise of Tha . He will not take away my Night ? ' And Tha said : ` The one Night is thine , as I have said , but there is a price to pay . Thou hast taught Man to kill , and he is no slow learner . ' `` The First of the Tigers said : ` He is here under my foot , and his back is broken . Let the Jungle know I have killed Fear . ' `` Then Tha laughed , and said : ` Thou hast killed one of many , but thou thyself shalt tell the Jungle -- for thy Night is ended . ' `` So the day came ; and from the mouth of the cave went out another Hairless One , and he saw the kill in the path , and the First of the Tigers above it , and he took a pointed stick -- '' `` They throw a thing that cuts now , '' said Ikki , rustling down the bank ; for Ikki was considered uncommonly good eating by the Gonds -- they called him Ho-Igoo -- and he knew something of the wicked little Gondee axe that whirls across a clearing like a dragon-fly . `` It was a pointed stick , such as they put in the foot of a pit-trap , '' said Hathi , `` and throwing it , he struck the First of the Tigers deep in the flank . Thus it happened as Tha said , for the First of the Tigers ran howling up and down the Jungle till he tore out the stick , and all the Jungle knew that the Hairless One could strike from far off , and they feared more than before . So it came about that the First of the Tigers taught the Hairless One to kill -- and ye know what harm that has since done to all our peoples -- through the noose , and the pitfall , and the hidden trap , and the flying stick and the stinging fly that comes out of white smoke -LSB- Hathi meant the rifle -RSB- , and the Red Flower that drives us into the open . Yet for one night in the year the Hairless One fears the Tiger , as Tha promised , and never has the Tiger given him cause to be less afraid .
Where he finds him , there he kills him , remembering how the First of the XXXXX was made ashamed .
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