It is well done . '' `` Little Brother , it is well done , '' said a deep voice in the thicket . `` We were lonely in the jungle without thee , '' and Bagheera came running to Mowgli 's bare feet . They clambered up the Council Rock together , and Mowgli spread the skin out on the flat stone where Akela used to sit , and pegged it down with four slivers of bamboo , and Akela lay down upon it , and called the old call to the Council , `` Look -- look well , O Wolves , '' exactly as he had called when Mowgli was first brought there . Ever since Akela had been deposed , the Pack had been without a leader , hunting and fighting at their own pleasure . But they answered the call from habit ; and some of them were lame from the traps they had fallen into , and some limped from shot wounds , and some were mangy from eating bad food , and many were missing . But they came to the Council Rock , all that were left of them , and saw Shere Khan 's striped hide on the rock , and the huge claws dangling at the end of the empty dangling feet . It was then that Mowgli made up a song that came up into his throat all by itself , and he shouted it aloud , leaping up and down on the rattling skin , and beating time with his heels till he had no more breath left , while Gray Brother and Akela howled between the verses . `` Look well , O Wolves . Have I kept my word ? '' said Mowgli . And the wolves bayed `` Yes , '' and one tattered wolf howled : `` Lead us again , O Akela . Lead us again , O Man-cub , for we be sick of this lawlessness , and we would be the Free People once more . '' `` Nay , '' purred Bagheera , `` that may not be . When ye are full-fed , the madness may come upon you again . Not for nothing are ye called the Free People . Ye fought for freedom , and it is yours . Eat it , O Wolves . '' `` Man-Pack and Wolf-Pack have cast me out , '' said Mowgli . `` Now I will hunt alone in the jungle . ''
`` And we will hunt XXXXX thee , '' said the four cubs .
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