`` Enter , then , and look , '' said Father Wolf stiffly , `` but there is no food here . '' `` For a wolf , no , '' said Tabaqui , `` but for so mean a person as myself a dry bone is a good feast . Who are we , the Gidur-log -LSB- the jackal people -RSB- , to pick and choose ? '' He scuttled to the back of the cave , where he found the bone of a buck with some meat on it , and sat cracking the end merrily . `` All thanks for this good meal , '' he said , licking his lips . `` How beautiful are the noble children ! How large are their eyes ! And so young too ! Indeed , indeed , I might have remembered that the children of kings are men from the beginning . '' Now , Tabaqui knew as well as anyone else that there is nothing so unlucky as to compliment children to their faces . It pleased him to see Mother and Father Wolf look uncomfortable . Tabaqui sat still , rejoicing in the mischief that he had made , and then he said spitefully : `` Shere Khan , the Big One , has shifted his hunting grounds . He will hunt among these hills for the next moon , so he has told me . '' Shere Khan was the tiger who lived near the Waingunga River , twenty miles away . `` He has no right ! '' Father Wolf began angrily -- `` By the Law of the Jungle he has no right to change his quarters without due warning . He will frighten every head of game within ten miles , and I -- I have to kill for two , these days . '' `` His mother did not call him Lungri -LSB- the Lame One -RSB- for nothing , '' said Mother Wolf quietly . `` He has been lame in one foot from his birth . That is why he has only killed cattle .
Now the villagers of the Waingunga are angry XXXXX him , and he has come here to make our villagers angry .
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