I will always remember that I love thee and all in our cave . But also I will always remember that I have been cast out of the Pack . '' `` And that thou mayest be cast out of another pack . Men are only men , Little Brother , and their talk is like the talk of frogs in a pond . When I come down here again , I will wait for thee in the bamboos at the edge of the grazing-ground . '' For three months after that night Mowgli hardly ever left the village gate , he was so busy learning the ways and customs of men . First he had to wear a cloth round him , which annoyed him horribly ; and then he had to learn about money , which he did not in the least understand , and about plowing , of which he did not see the use . Then the little children in the village made him very angry . Luckily , the Law of the Jungle had taught him to keep his temper , for in the jungle life and food depend on keeping your temper ; but when they made fun of him because he would not play games or fly kites , or because he mispronounced some word , only the knowledge that it was unsportsmanlike to kill little naked cubs kept him from picking them up and breaking them in two . He did not know his own strength in the least . In the jungle he knew he was weak compared with the beasts , but in the village people said that he was as strong as a bull . And Mowgli had not the faintest idea of the difference that caste makes between man and man . When the potter 's donkey slipped in the clay pit , Mowgli hauled it out by the tail , and helped to stack the pots for their journey to the market at Khanhiwara . That was very shocking , too , for the potter is a low-caste man , and his donkey is worse . When the priest scolded him , Mowgli threatened to put him on the donkey too , and the priest told Messua 's husband that Mowgli had better be set to work as soon as possible ; and the village head-man told Mowgli that he would have to go out with the buffaloes next day , and herd them while they grazed . No one was more pleased than Mowgli ; and that night , because he had been appointed a servant of the village , as it were , he went off to a circle that met every evening on a masonry platform under a great fig-tree . It was the village club , and the head-man and the watchman and the barber , who knew all the gossip of the village , and old Buldeo , the village hunter , who had a Tower musket , met and smoked . The monkeys sat and talked in the upper branches , and there was a hole under the platform where a cobra lived , and he had his little platter of milk every night because he was sacred ; and the old men sat around the tree and talked , and pulled at the big huqas -LRB- the water-pipes -RRB- till far into the night . They told wonderful tales of gods and men and ghosts ; and Buldeo told even more wonderful ones of the ways of beasts in the jungle , till the eyes of the children sitting outside the circle bulged out of their heads . Most of the tales were about animals , for the jungle was always at their door .
The deer and the wild pig grubbed up their crops , and now and again the tiger carried off a man XXXXX twilight , within sight of the village gates .
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