The punishment is death where the murderer can be found ; and if you think for a minute you will see that this must be so . Father Wolf waited till his cubs could run a little , and then on the night of the Pack Meeting took them and Mowgli and Mother Wolf to the Council Rock -- a hilltop covered with stones and boulders where a hundred wolves could hide . Akela , the great gray Lone Wolf , who led all the Pack by strength and cunning , lay out at full length on his rock , and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color , from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone to young black three-year-olds who thought they could . The Lone Wolf had led them for a year now . He had fallen twice into a wolf trap in his youth , and once he had been beaten and left for dead ; so he knew the manners and customs of men . There was very little talking at the Rock . The cubs tumbled over each other in the center of the circle where their mothers and fathers sat , and now and again a senior wolf would go quietly up to a cub , look at him carefully , and return to his place on noiseless feet . Sometimes a mother would push her cub far out into the moonlight to be sure that he had not been overlooked . Akela from his rock would cry : `` Ye know the Law -- ye know the Law . Look well , O Wolves ! '' And the anxious mothers would take up the call : `` Look -- look well , O Wolves ! '' At last -- and Mother Wolf 's neck bristles lifted as the time came -- Father Wolf pushed `` Mowgli the Frog , '' as they called him , into the center , where he sat laughing and playing with some pebbles that glistened in the moonlight . Akela never raised his head from his paws , but went on with the monotonous cry : `` Look well ! '' A muffled roar came up from behind the rocks -- the voice of Shere Khan crying : `` The cub is mine . Give him to me . What have the Free People to do with a man 's cub ? '' Akela never even twitched his ears . All he said was : `` Look well , O Wolves ! What have the Free People to do with the orders of any save the Free People ? Look well ! ''
There was a chorus of deep growls , and a young wolf in his fourth year flung back Shere Khan 's question to Akela : `` What have the Free People to do XXXXX a man 's cub ? ''
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