`` Nothing was ever yet lost by silence , '' said Kaa -- no sting could penetrate his scales -- `` and thou hast all the long night for the hunting . Hear them howl ! '' Nearly half the pack had seen the trap their fellows rushed into , and turning sharp aside had flung themselves into the water where the gorge broke down in steep banks . Their cries of rage and their threats against the `` tree-ape '' who had brought them to their shame mixed with the yells and growls of those who had been punished by the Little People . To remain ashore was death , and every dhole knew it . Their pack was swept along the current , down to the deep eddies of the Peace Pool , but even there the angry Little People followed and forced them to the water again . Mowgli could hear the voice of the tailless leader bidding his people hold on and kill out every wolf in Seeonee . But he did not waste his time in listening . `` One kills in the dark behind us ! '' snapped a dhole . `` Here is tainted water ! '' Mowgli had dived forward like an otter , twitched a struggling dhole under water before he could open his mouth , and dark rings rose as the body plopped up , turning on its side . The dholes tried to turn , but the current prevented them , and the Little People darted at the heads and ears , and they could hear the challenge of the Seeonee Pack growing louder and deeper in the gathering darkness . Again Mowgli dived , and again a dhole went under , and rose dead , and again the clamour broke out at the rear of the pack ; some howling that it was best to go ashore , others calling on their leader to lead them back to the Dekkan , and others bidding Mowgli show himself and be killed . `` They come to the fight with two stomachs and several voices , '' said Kaa . `` The rest is with thy brethren below yonder , The Little People go back to sleep . They have chased us far . Now I , too , turn back , for I am not of one skin with any wolf . Good hunting , Little Brother , and remember the dhole bites low . '' A wolf came running along the bank on three legs , leaping up and down , laying his head sideways close to the ground , hunching his back , and breaking high into the air , as though he were playing with his cubs .
It was Won-tolla , the Outlier , and he said never a word , but continued his horrible sport beside the XXXXX .
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