“Quick, Akela！Break them up. Scatter them, or they will be fighting one another. Drive them away, Akela. Hai, Rama！Hai, hai, hai！My children. Softly now, softly！It is all over.”
Akela and Gray Brother ran to and fro nipping the buffaloes’legs, and though the herd wheeled once to charge up the ravine again, Mowgli managed to turn Rama, and the others followed him to the wallows.
Shere Khan needed no more trampling. He was dead, and the kites were coming for him already.
“Brothers, that was a dog’s death,”said Mowgli, feeling for the knife he always carried in a sheath round his neck now that he lived with men.“But he would never have shown fight. His hide will look well on the Council Rock. We must get to work swiftly.”