And Messua cried , and Buldeo embroidered the story of his adventures in the jungle , till he ended by saying that Akela stood up on his hind legs and talked like a man . The moon was just going down when Mowgli and the two wolves came to the hill of the Council Rock , and they stopped at Mother Wolf 's cave . `` They have cast me out from the Man-Pack , Mother , '' shouted Mowgli , `` but I come with the hide of Shere Khan to keep my word . '' Mother Wolf walked stiffly from the cave with the cubs behind her , and her eyes glowed as she saw the skin . `` I told him on that day , when he crammed his head and shoulders into this cave , hunting for thy life , Little Frog -- I told him that the hunter would be the hunted . 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 XXXXX nothing are ye called the Free People .
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