Akela ! Let the Lone Wolf show his strength . Room for the leader of the Pack ! Spring , Akela ! '' The Lone Wolf must have sprung and missed his hold , for Mowgli heard the snap of his teeth and then a yelp as the Sambhur knocked him over with his forefoot . He did not wait for anything more , but dashed on ; and the yells grew fainter behind him as he ran into the croplands where the villagers lived . `` Bagheera spoke truth , '' he panted , as he nestled down in some cattle fodder by the window of a hut . `` To-morrow is one day both for Akela and for me . '' Then he pressed his face close to the window and watched the fire on the hearth . He saw the husbandman 's wife get up and feed it in the night with black lumps . And when the morning came and the mists were all white and cold , he saw the man 's child pick up a wicker pot plastered inside with earth , fill it with lumps of red-hot charcoal , put it under his blanket , and go out to tend the cows in the byre . `` Is that all ? '' 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 XXXXX thee on the hill . ''
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