Mowgli sat with his head on his knees , careless of anything else , while the remnant of the flying dholes were being overtaken and run down by the merciless lahinis . Little by little the cries died away , and the wolves returned limping , as their wounds stiffened , to take stock of the losses . Fifteen of the Pack , as well as half a dozen lahinis , lay dead by the river , and of the others not one was unmarked . And Mowgli sat through it all till the cold daybreak , when Phao 's wet , red muzzle was dropped in his hand , and Mowgli drew back to show the gaunt body of Akela . `` Good hunting ! '' said Phao , as though Akela were still alive , and then over his bitten shoulder to the others : `` Howl , dogs ! A Wolf has died to-night ! '' But of all the Pack of two hundred fighting dholes , whose boast was that all jungles were their Jungle , and that no living thing could stand before them , not one returned to the Dekkan to carry that word . CHIL 'S SONG -LSB- This is the song that Chil sang as the kites dropped down one after another to the river-bed , when the great fight was finished . Chil is good friends with everybody , but he is a cold-blooded kind of creature at heart , because he knows that almost everybody in the Jungle comes to him in the long-run . -RSB- These were my companions going forth by night -- -LRB- For Chil ! Look you , for Chil ! -RRB- Now come I to whistle them the ending of the fight . -LRB- Chil ! Vanguards of Chil ! -RRB- Word they gave me overhead of quarry newly slain , Word I gave them underfoot of buck upon the plain . Here 's an end of every trail -- they shall not speak again ! They that called the hunting-cry -- they that followed fast -- -LRB- For Chil ! Look you , for Chil ! -RRB- They that bade the sambhur wheel , or pinned him as he passed -- -LRB- Chil !
Vanguards of XXXXX ! -RRB-
Akela Chil Dekkan Mowgli Phao Wolf dholes lahinis night to-night