The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-09

for I have good cause''-Akela looked
down ait the old dry scars on his flank
and side-"that men do not carry guns
for pleasure. Presently, Little Broth
if indeed he be. not already on it,
"But why should he? Men have
cast me out. What more do they
need? 2" said Mowgh, angTily.
Thou art man, Little Brother"
AIzela returned. "It is not for us, the
Free Hunters, to tell thee what thy
brethren do, or why?'
| He had Just time to snatch up his
paw as the sl5inning knife cut deep
| into the ground below. MoWgli struck
! quicker than an average human eye
could follow, but Akela was wolf;
and even a dog, who is very far re-
moved from the wild wolf his ancestor,
can be walked out OF deep sleep by a
cart-wheel touching his flank, and can
spring away unframed before that
wheel comes on.
Another time" Mowgli said quietly
returning the knife to its sheath,
; speak the Man-pack and Of MoWgh
in two breaths-not one"
"Phff! that is sharp tooth" said
Akela, snuffing at the blades cut IN
the earth, ''but living with the Man
pack has spoiled thy eye, Little Brother.
/ I could have killed a buck while thou
vast striking"
! Bagheera sprang to his feet, thrust
up his head as far as he could, snl1fed
and stiffened through every curve in his
body Grey Brother followed his exam
pie quickly, keeping little to his lett
to get the wind that was blowing from
the right while Akela bounded fifty
yards up wind and, half-crouching, stiff
fened too. Mowgli looked on enviousiy.
He could smell things as very few hui
man beings could, but he had never
reached the r-trigger-like sensitive
ness Of jungle nose; and his three
months in the smoky valley had put
him back sadly. However, he dampened
his finger, rubbed it on his nose and
stood up to catch the upper scent,
which though it is the faintest, Is the
truest.
MAN." Akela growled, dropping on
his launches.
"Buldeo." said Mowgi, sitting down.
'He follows our trail, and yonder is
the sunlight on his gun. Look
| 1t was no more than a flash of sun
light for a fraction of a second on the
brass clamps of the old Tower muslset
but nothing in the jungle winks with
that flash except when the clouds race
over the sky. Then a piece of mica, or
a little pool, or even a highly polished
leaf will flash like a, Telegraph. But
that day was cloudless and still.
Il knew men would follow" said Ak
Ella, triumphantly. Not for nothing
have 1 led the Packard now?"
The four clubs, headed by Grey Broth
err, said nothing, but ran down hill on
their bellies melting into the thorn and
underbrush as mold nelts into the
earth.
where go ye, without word?" Now
gil called.
s.H'sh! We will roll his skull here be-
fore midday" Grey Brother answered.
Here! Back and wait? Man does not
eat man." Mowgl shrieked.
WHO was wolf but now? Vino
drove the knife at me for thinking he
might be man." said Akeia, as the
four wolves turned back suddenly and
dropped to heel
/ Am to give reasons for what I
choose to do?" said Mowgh furiously.
"That is a man. There speaks a
man." Bagheera muttered under his
whiskers Even so did men talk round
the Kings cages at Oodeypore. We OF
the jungle know that man is wisest of