And then came Akela 's deep bay , crying : `` Look well -- look well , O Wolves ! '' Mowgli was still deeply interested in the pebbles , and he did not notice when the wolves came and looked at him one by one . At last they all went down the hill for the dead bull , and only Akela , Bagheera , Baloo , and Mowgli 's own wolves were left . Shere Khan roared still in the night , for he was very angry that Mowgli had not been handed over to him . `` Ay , roar well , '' said Bagheera , under his whiskers , `` for the time will come when this naked thing will make thee roar to another tune , or I know nothing of man . '' `` It was well done , '' said Akela . `` Men and their cubs are very wise . He may be a help in time . '' `` Truly , a help in time of need ; for none can hope to lead the Pack forever , '' said Bagheera . Akela said nothing . He was thinking of the time that comes to every leader of every pack when his strength goes from him and he gets feebler and feebler , till at last he is killed by the wolves and a new leader comes up -- to be killed in his turn . `` Take him away , '' he said to Father Wolf , `` and train him as befits one of the Free People . '' And that is how Mowgli was entered into the Seeonee Wolf Pack for the price of a bull and on Baloo 's good word . Now you must be content to skip ten or eleven whole years , and only guess at all the wonderful life that Mowgli led among the wolves , because if it were written out it would fill ever so many books . He grew up with the cubs , though they , of course , were grown wolves almost before he was a child . And Father Wolf taught him his business , and the meaning of things in the jungle , till every rustle in the grass , every breath of the warm night air , every note of the owls above his head , every scratch of a bat 's claws as it roosted for a while in a tree , and every splash of every little fish jumping in a pool meant just as much to him as the work of his office means to a business man . When he was not learning he sat out in the sun and slept , and ate and went to sleep again . When he felt dirty or hot he swam in the forest pools ; and when he wanted honey -LRB- Baloo told him that honey and nuts were just as pleasant to eat as raw meat -RRB- he climbed up for it , and that Bagheera showed him how to do . Bagheera would lie out on a branch and call , `` Come along , Little Brother , '' and at first Mowgli would cling like the sloth , but afterward he would fling himself through the branches almost as boldly as the gray ape . He took his place at the Council Rock , too , when the Pack met , and there he discovered that if he stared hard at any wolf , the wolf would be forced to drop his eyes , and so he used to stare for fun .
XXXXX other times he would pick the long thorns out of the pads of his friends , for wolves suffer terribly from thorns and burs in their coats .
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