He will hunt among these hills for the next moon , so he has told me . '' Shere Khan was the tiger who lived near the Waingunga River , twenty miles away . `` He has no right ! '' Father Wolf began angrily -- `` By the Law of the Jungle he has no right to change his quarters without due warning . He will frighten every head of game within ten miles , and I -- I have to kill for two , these days . '' `` His mother did not call him Lungri -LSB- the Lame One -RSB- for nothing , '' said Mother Wolf quietly . `` He has been lame in one foot from his birth . That is why he has only killed cattle . Now the villagers of the Waingunga are angry with him , and he has come here to make our villagers angry . They will scour the jungle for him when he is far away , and we and our children must run when the grass is set alight . Indeed , we are very grateful to Shere Khan ! '' `` Shall I tell him of your gratitude ? '' said Tabaqui . `` Out ! '' snapped Father Wolf . `` Out and hunt with thy master . Thou hast done harm enough for one night . '' `` I go , '' said Tabaqui quietly . `` Ye can hear Shere Khan below in the thickets . I might have saved myself the message . ''
Father Wolf listened , and below in the valley that ran down to a little river he heard the dry , angry , snarly , singsong whine of a tiger who has caught nothing and does not care if all the XXXXX knows it .
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