Tabaqui has told thee too . '' `` Ho ! ho ! '' said Mowgli . `` Tabaqui came to me not long ago with some rude talk that I was a naked man 's cub and not fit to dig pig-nuts . But I caught Tabaqui by the tail and swung him twice against a palm-tree to teach him better manners . '' `` That was foolishness , for though Tabaqui is a mischief-maker , he would have told thee of something that concerned thee closely . Open those eyes , Little Brother . Shere Khan dare not kill thee in the jungle . But remember , Akela is very old , and soon the day comes when he can not kill his buck , and then he will be leader no more . Many of the wolves that looked thee over when thou wast brought to the Council first are old too , and the young wolves believe , as Shere Khan has taught them , that a man-cub has no place with the Pack . In a little time thou wilt be a man . '' `` And what is a man that he should not run with his brothers ? '' said Mowgli . `` I was born in the jungle . I have obeyed the Law of the Jungle , and there is no wolf of ours from whose paws I have not pulled a thorn . Surely they are my brothers ! '' Bagheera stretched himself at full length and half shut his eyes . `` Little Brother , '' said he , `` feel under my jaw . '' Mowgli put up his strong brown hand , and just under Bagheera 's silky chin , where the giant rolling muscles were all hid by the glossy hair , he came upon a little bald spot .
`` There is no one in the jungle XXXXX knows that I , Bagheera , carry that mark -- the mark of the collar ; and yet , Little Brother , I was born among men , and it was among men that my mother died -- in the cages of the king 's palace at Oodeypore .
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