We shall see the mohwa in blossom yet , and the little fawns all fat with new grass . Come down to the Peace Rock and hear the news . On my back , Little Brother . '' `` This is no time to carry weight . I can still stand alone , but -- indeed we be no fatted bullocks , we two . '' Bagheera looked along his ragged , dusty flank and whispered . `` Last night I killed a bullock under the yoke . So low was I brought that I think I should not have dared to spring if he had been loose . WOU ! '' Mowgli laughed . `` Yes , we be great hunters now , '' said he . `` I am very bold -- to eat grubs , '' and the two came down together through the crackling undergrowth to the river-bank and the lace-work of shoals that ran out from it in every direction . `` The water can not live long , '' said Baloo , joining them . `` Look across . Yonder are trails like the roads of Man . '' On the level plain of the farther bank the stiff jungle-grass had died standing , and , dying , had mummied . The beaten tracks of the deer and the pig , all heading toward the river , had striped that colourless plain with dusty gullies driven through the ten-foot grass , and , early as it was , each long avenue was full of first-comers hastening to the water . You could hear the does and fawns coughing in the snuff-like dust . Up-stream , at the bend of the sluggish pool round the Peace Rock , and Warden of the Water Truce , stood Hathi , the wild elephant , with his sons , gaunt and gray in the moonlight , rocking to and fro -- always rocking . Below him a little were the vanguard of the deer ; below these , again , the pig and the wild buffalo ; and on the opposite bank , where the tall trees came down to the water 's edge , was the place set apart for the Eaters of Flesh -- the tiger , the wolves , the panther , the bear , and the others .
`` We are under one Law , indeed , '' said Bagheera , wading into the water and looking across at the lines of clicking horns and starting eyes where the deer and the pig pushed each other to and XXXXX .
Baloo Brother Hathi Mowgli Truce bullock bullocks fro jungle-grass mohwa