That was enough , and more than enough , to wake the Pack to stupid rage . Those who have hair between their toes do not care to be reminded of it . Mowgli caught his foot away as the leader leaped up , and said sweetly : `` Dog , red dog ! Go back to the Dekkan and eat lizards . Go to Chikai thy brother -- dog , dog -- red , red dog ! There is hair between every toe ! '' He twiddled his toes a second time . `` Come down ere we starve thee out , hairless ape ! '' yelled the Pack , and this was exactly what Mowgli wanted . He laid himself down along the branch , his cheek to the bark , his right arm free , and there he told the Pack what he thought and knew about them , their manners , their customs , their mates , and their puppies . There is no speech in the world so rancorous and so stinging as the language the Jungle People use to show scorn and contempt . When you come to think of it you will see how this must be so . As Mowgli told Kaa , he had many little thorns under his tongue , and slowly and deliberately he drove the dholes from silence to growls , from growls to yells , and from yells to hoarse slavery ravings . They tried to answer his taunts , but a cub might as well have tried to answer Kaa in a rage ; and all the while Mowgli 's right hand lay crooked at his side , ready for action , his feet locked round the branch . The big bay leader had leaped many times in the air , but Mowgli dared not risk a false blow . At last , made furious beyond his natural strength , he bounded up seven or eight feet clear of the ground . Then Mowgli 's hand shot out like the head of a tree-snake , and gripped him by the scruff of his neck , and the branch shook with the jar as his weight fell back , almost wrenching Mowgli to the ground . But he never loosed his grip , and inch by inch he hauled the beast , hanging like a drowned jackal , up on the branch . With his left hand he reached for his knife and cut off the red , bushy tail , flinging the dhole back to earth again . That was all he needed .
The Pack would not go forward on Won-tolla 's trail now till they had killed XXXXX or Mowgli had killed them .
Dekkan Kaa Mowgli dhole jackal left ravings right scruff tree-snake