Also I don't I think that you sit here sit here any more, with your tongues hanging out and pretending to be important. You are just dogs that I chase away - like this! Go!" The fire was burning strongly at the end of the branch. Mowgli started to hit the wolves with it. They ran away with their fur burning, and crying with pain and fear. In the end there were only Akela and Bagheera were still with Mowgli. There were also about ten wolves that had stood with Mowgli against the wolves who wanted to kill him.. Something began to hurt Mowgli . Something different from all the other times he had been hurt before. It was hard to breathe. He cried, and the tears ran down his face.

"What is it?" he said. "I do not want to leave the jungle, and I do not know what is happening. Am I dying, Bagheera?"

"No, Little Brother. You are crying, which is what men do," said Bagheera. "Now I know you are a man, and not a baby any more. You can't come back to the jungle. So cry, Mowgli. They are only tears." Mowgli sat and cried. This was new for him because he had never cried before in all his life.

"Now," he said, "I will go to men. But first I will say goodbye to my mother." And he went to the cave where Mother wolf lived with Father Wolf, and he cried with her.

"You will not forget me?" said Mowgli.