`` Has he eaten today , or does he hunt empty ? '' said Mowgli , for the answer meant life and death to him . `` He killed at dawn , -- a pig , -- and he has drunk too . Remember , Shere Khan could never fast , even for the sake of revenge . '' `` Oh ! Fool , fool ! What a cub 's cub it is ! Eaten and drunk too , and he thinks that I shall wait till he has slept ! Now , where does he lie up ? If there were but ten of us we might pull him down as he lies . These buffaloes will not charge unless they wind him , and I can not speak their language . Can we get behind his track so that they may smell it ? '' `` He swam far down the Waingunga to cut that off , '' said Gray Brother . `` Tabaqui told him that , I know . He would never have thought of it alone . '' Mowgli stood with his finger in his mouth , thinking . `` The big ravine of the Waingunga . That opens out on the plain not half a mile from here . I can take the herd round through the jungle to the head of the ravine and then sweep down -- but he would slink out at the foot . We must block that end .
Gray Brother , canst thou cut the herd in two XXXXX me ? ''
If behind for of on that through till to unless