The purr grew louder , and ended in the full-throated `` Aaarh ! '' of the tiger 's charge . Then there was a howl -- an untigerish howl -- from Shere Khan . `` He has missed , '' said Mother Wolf . `` What is it ? '' Father Wolf ran out a few paces and heard Shere Khan muttering and mumbling savagely as he tumbled about in the scrub . `` The fool has had no more sense than to jump at a woodcutter 's campfire , and has burned his feet , '' said Father Wolf with a grunt . `` Tabaqui is with him . '' `` Something is coming uphill , '' said Mother Wolf , twitching one ear . `` Get ready . '' The bushes rustled a little in the thicket , and Father Wolf dropped with his haunches under him , ready for his leap . Then , if you had been watching , you would have seen the most wonderful thing in the world -- the wolf checked in mid-spring . He made his bound before he saw what it was he was jumping at , and then he tried to stop himself . The result was that he shot up straight into the air for four or five feet , landing almost where he left ground . `` Man ! '' he snapped . `` A man 's cub . Look ! '' Directly in front of him , holding on by a low branch , stood a naked brown baby who could just walk -- as soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf 's cave at night . He looked up into Father Wolf 's face , and laughed .
`` Is that a man 's XXXXX ? ''
Aaarh Khan Tabaqui Wolf cub left mid-spring night purr woodcutter