Mowgli heard an answering bellow from the foot of the ravine , saw Shere Khan turn -LRB- the tiger knew if the worst came to the worst it was better to meet the bulls than the cows with their calves -RRB- , and then Rama tripped , stumbled , and went on again over something soft , and , with the bulls at his heels , crashed full into the other herd , while the weaker buffaloes were lifted clean off their feet by the shock of the meeting . That charge carried both herds out into the plain , goring and stamping and snorting . Mowgli watched his time , and slipped off Rama 's neck , laying about him right and left with his stick . `` 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 . '' A boy trained among men would never have dreamed of skinning a ten-foot tiger alone , but Mowgli knew better than anyone else how an animal 's skin is fitted on , and how it can be taken off .
But it was hard work , and XXXXX slashed and tore and grunted for an hour , while the wolves lolled out their tongues , or came forward and tugged as he ordered them .
Akela Hai Mowgli Rock fro goring kites left right wallows