`` Have no fear , '' said Gray Brother , licking his lips a little . `` I met Tabaqui in the dawn . Now he is telling all his wisdom to the kites , but he told me everything before I broke his back . Shere Khan 's plan is to wait for thee at the village gate this evening -- for thee and for no one else . He is lying up now , in the big dry ravine of the Waingunga . '' `` Has he eaten today , or does he hunt empty ? '' said Mowgli , for the answer meant life and death to him . `` He killed at dawn , -- a pig , -- and he has drunk too . Remember , Shere Khan could never fast , even for the sake of revenge . '' `` Oh ! Fool , fool ! What a cub 's cub it is ! Eaten and drunk too , and he thinks that I shall wait till he has slept ! Now , where does he lie up ? If there were but ten of us we might pull him down as he lies . These buffaloes will not charge unless they wind him , and I can not speak their language . Can we get behind his track so that they may smell it ? '' `` He swam far down the Waingunga to cut that off , '' said Gray Brother . `` Tabaqui told him that , I know . He would never have thought of it alone . ''
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