said Mowgli . `` Are we all jackals , to fawn on this cattle butcher ? The leadership of the Pack is with the Pack alone . '' There were yells of `` Silence , thou man 's cub ! '' `` Let him speak . He has kept our Law '' ; and at last the seniors of the Pack thundered : `` Let the Dead Wolf speak . '' When a leader of the Pack has missed his kill , he is called the Dead Wolf as long as he lives , which is not long . Akela raised his old head wearily : -- `` Free People , and ye too , jackals of Shere Khan , for twelve seasons I have led ye to and from the kill , and in all that time not one has been trapped or maimed . Now I have missed my kill . Ye know how that plot was made . Ye know how ye brought me up to an untried buck to make my weakness known . It was cleverly done . Your right is to kill me here on the Council Rock , now . Therefore , I ask , who comes to make an end of the Lone Wolf ? For it is my right , by the Law of the Jungle , that ye come one by one . '' There was a long hush , for no single wolf cared to fight Akela to the death . Then Shere Khan roared : `` Bah ! What have we to do with this toothless fool ? He is doomed to die ! It is the man-cub who has lived too long .
Free People , he was my meat XXXXX the first .
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