said Mowgli . `` If a cub can do it , there is nothing to fear . '' So he strode round the corner and met the boy , took the pot from his hand , and disappeared into the mist while the boy howled with fear . `` They are very like me , '' said Mowgli , blowing into the pot as he had seen the woman do . `` This thing will die if I do not give it things to eat '' ; and he dropped twigs and dried bark on the red stuff . Halfway up the hill he met Bagheera with the morning dew shining like moonstones on his coat . `` Akela has missed , '' said the Panther . `` They would have killed him last night , but they needed thee also . They were looking for thee on the hill . '' `` I was among the plowed lands . I am ready . See ! '' Mowgli held up the fire-pot . `` Good ! Now , I have seen men thrust a dry branch into that stuff , and presently the Red Flower blossomed at the end of it . Art thou not afraid ? '' `` No . Why should I fear ? I remember now -- if it is not a dream -- how , before I was a Wolf , I lay beside the Red Flower , and it was warm and pleasant . '' All that day Mowgli sat in the cave tending his fire pot and dipping dry branches into it to see how they looked .
He found a branch that satisfied him , and XXXXX the evening when Tabaqui came to the cave and told him rudely enough that he was wanted at the Council Rock , he laughed till Tabaqui ran away .
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