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 Tha heard the noise of it and came back . Then some of us said this and some of us said that , but he saw the dead buck among the flowers , and asked who had killed , and we of the Jungle would not tell because the smell of the blood made us foolish . We ran to and fro in circles , capering and crying out and shaking our heads . Then Tha gave an order to the trees that hang low , and to the trailing creepers of the Jungle , that they should mark the killer of the buck so that he should know him again , and he said , ` Who will now be master of the Jungle People ? ' Then up leaped the Gray Ape who lives in the branches , and said , ' I will now be master of the Jungle . ' '' At this Tha laughed , and said , `` So be it , '' and went away very angry . `` Children , ye know the Gray Ape . He was then as he is now . At the first he made a wise face for himself , but in a little while he began to scratch and to leap up and down , and when Tha came back he found the Gray Ape hanging , head down , from a bough , mocking those who stood below ; and they mocked him again . And so there was no Law in the Jungle -- only foolish talk and senseless words . `` Then Tha called us all together and said : ` The first of your masters has brought Death into the Jungle , and the second Shame . Now it is time there was a Law , and a Law that ye must not break . Now ye shall know Fear , and when ye have found him ye shall know that he is your master , and the rest shall follow . ' Then we of the jungle said , ` What is Fear ? ' And Tha said , ` Seek till ye find . ' So we went up and down the Jungle seeking for Fear , and presently the buffaloes -- '' `` Ugh ! '' said Mysa , the leader of the buffaloes , from their sand-bank .
`` Yes , XXXXX , it was the buffaloes .
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