The Jungle book

"What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue. By your very carelessness they know that you are a man. But be wise. It is in my heart that when Akela misses his next kill - and at each hunt it costs him more to pin the buck - the Pack will turn against him and against you. They will hold a jungle Council at the Rock, and then - and then - I have it!" said Bagheera, leaping up.

"Go down quickly to the men's huts in the valley, and take some of the Red Flower which they grow there, so that when the time comes you may have even a stronger friend than I or Baloo or those of the Pack that love you. Get the Red Flower." By 'Red Flower' Bagheera meant fire, only no creature in the jungle will call fire by its proper name. Every beast lives in deadly fear of it, and invents a hundred ways of describing it.

"The Red Flower?" said Mowgli. "That grows outside their huts in the twilight. I will get some."

"There speaks the man's cub," said Bagheera proudly. "Remember that it grows in little pots. Get one swiftly, and keep it by you for time of need."

"Good!" said Mowgli. "I go. But are you sure, O my Bagheera" - he slipped his arm around the splendid neck and looked deep into the big eyes - "are you sure that all this is Shere Khan's doing?"