`` It is Man . '' The whine had changed to a sort of humming purr that seemed to come from every quarter of the compass . It was the noise that bewilders woodcutters and gypsies sleeping in the open , and makes them run sometimes into the very mouth of the tiger . `` Man ! '' said Father Wolf , showing all his white teeth . `` Faugh ! Are there not enough beetles and frogs in the tanks that he must eat Man , and on our ground too ! '' The Law of the Jungle , which never orders anything without a reason , forbids every beast to eat Man except when he is killing to show his children how to kill , and then he must hunt outside the hunting grounds of his pack or tribe . The real reason for this is that man-killing means , sooner or later , the arrival of white men on elephants , with guns , and hundreds of brown men with gongs and rockets and torches . Then everybody in the jungle suffers . The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things , and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him . They say too -- and it is true -- that man-eaters become mangy , and lose their teeth . 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 XXXXX , twitching one ear .
Aaarh Faugh Jungle Khan Tabaqui Wolf gongs mangy quarter woodcutter