Careful , now -- careful , Akela . A snap too much and the bulls will charge . Hujah ! This is wilder work than driving black-buck . Didst thou think these creatures could move so swiftly ? '' Mowgli called . `` I have -- have hunted these too in my time , '' gasped Akela in the dust . `` Shall I turn them into the jungle ? '' `` Ay ! Turn . Swiftly turn them ! Rama is mad with rage . Oh , if I could only tell him what I need of him to-day . '' The bulls were turned , to the right this time , and crashed into the standing thicket . The other herd children , watching with the cattle half a mile away , hurried to the village as fast as their legs could carry them , crying that the buffaloes had gone mad and run away . But Mowgli 's plan was simple enough . All he wanted to do was to make a big circle uphill and get at the head of the ravine , and then take the bulls down it and catch Shere Khan between the bulls and the cows ; for he knew that after a meal and a full drink Shere Khan would not be in any condition to fight or to clamber up the sides of the ravine . He was soothing the buffaloes now by voice , and Akela had dropped far to the rear , only whimpering once or twice to hurry the rear-guard . It was a long , long circle , for they did not wish to get too near the ravine and give Shere Khan warning . At last Mowgli rounded up the bewildered herd at the head of the ravine on a grassy patch that sloped steeply down to the ravine itself .
From that height you could see across the tops XXXXX the trees down to the plain below ; but what Mowgli looked at was the sides of the ravine , and he saw with a great deal of satisfaction that they ran nearly straight up and down , while the vines and creepers that hung over them would give no foothold to a tiger who wanted to get out .
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