she gasped . `` He came naked , by night , alone and very hungry ; yet he was not afraid ! Look , he has pushed one of my babes to one side already . And that lame butcher would have killed him and would have run off to the Waingunga while the villagers here hunted through all our lairs in revenge ! Keep him ? Assuredly I will keep him . Lie still , little frog . O thou Mowgli -- for Mowgli the Frog I will call thee -- the time will come when thou wilt hunt Shere Khan as he has hunted thee . '' `` But what will our Pack say ? '' said Father Wolf . The Law of the Jungle lays down very clearly that any wolf may , when he marries , withdraw from the Pack he belongs to . But as soon as his cubs are old enough to stand on their feet he must bring them to the Pack Council , which is generally held once a month at full moon , in order that the other wolves may identify them . After that inspection the cubs are free to run where they please , and until they have killed their first buck no excuse is accepted if a grown wolf of the Pack kills one of them . 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 XXXXX be sure that he had not been overlooked .
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