If ye find that the Bullock can toss you , or the heavy-browed Sambhur can gore ; Ye need not stop work to inform us : we knew it ten seasons before . Oppress not the cubs of the stranger , but hail them as Sister and Brother , For though they are little and fubsy , it may be the Bear is their mother . `` There is none like to me ! '' says the Cub in the pride of his earliest kill ; But the jungle is large and the Cub he is small . Let him think and be still . Maxims of Baloo All that is told here happened some time before Mowgli was turned out of the Seeonee Wolf Pack , or revenged himself on Shere Khan the tiger . It was in the days when Baloo was teaching him the Law of the Jungle . The big , serious , old brown bear was delighted to have so quick a pupil , for the young wolves will only learn as much of the Law of the Jungle as applies to their own pack and tribe , and run away as soon as they can repeat the Hunting Verse -- `` Feet that make no noise ; eyes that can see in the dark ; ears that can hear the winds in their lairs , and sharp white teeth , all these things are the marks of our brothers except Tabaqui the Jackal and the Hyaena whom we hate . '' But Mowgli , as a man-cub , had to learn a great deal more than this . Sometimes Bagheera the Black Panther would come lounging through the jungle to see how his pet was getting on , and would purr with his head against a tree while Mowgli recited the day 's lesson to Baloo . The boy could climb almost as well as he could swim , and swim almost as well as he could run . So Baloo , the Teacher of the Law , taught him the Wood and Water Laws : how to tell a rotten branch from a sound one ; how to speak politely to the wild bees when he came upon a hive of them fifty feet above ground ; what to say to Mang the Bat when he disturbed him in the branches at midday ; and how to warn the water-snakes in the pools before he splashed down among them . None of the Jungle People like being disturbed , and all are very ready to fly at an intruder . Then , too , Mowgli was taught the Strangers ' Hunting Call , which must be repeated aloud till it is answered , whenever one of the Jungle-People hunts outside his own grounds . It means , translated , `` Give me leave to hunt here because I am hungry . '' And the answer is , `` Hunt then for food , but not for pleasure . '' All this will show you how much Mowgli had to learn by heart , and he grew very tired of saying the same thing over a hundred times . But , as Baloo said to Bagheera , one day when Mowgli had been cuffed and run off in a temper , `` A man 's cub is a man 's cub , and he must learn all the Law of the Jungle . '' `` But think how small he is , '' said the Black Panther , who would have spoiled Mowgli if he had had his own way . `` How can his little head carry all thy long talk ? ''
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