said Mowgli . `` Look at me , '' said Bagheera . And Mowgli looked at him steadily between the eyes . The big panther turned his head away in half a minute . `` That is why , '' he said , shifting his paw on the leaves . `` Not even I can look thee between the eyes , and I was born among men , and I love thee , Little Brother . The others they hate thee because their eyes can not meet thine ; because thou art wise ; because thou hast pulled out thorns from their feet -- because thou art a man . '' `` I did not know these things , '' said Mowgli sullenly , and he frowned under his heavy black eyebrows . `` What is the Law of the Jungle ? Strike first and then give tongue . By thy very carelessness they know that thou art a man . But be wise . It is in my heart that when Akela misses his next kill -- and at each hunt it costs him more to pin the buck -- the Pack will turn against him and against thee . They will hold a jungle Council at the Rock , and then -- and then -- I have it ! '' said Bagheera , leaping up . `` Go thou down quickly to the men 's huts in the valley , and take some of the Red Flower which they grow there , so that when the time comes thou mayest have even a stronger friend than I or Baloo or those of the Pack that love thee . Get the Red Flower . '' By Red Flower Bagheera meant fire , only no creature in the jungle will call fire by its proper name . Every beast lives in deadly fear of it , and invents a hundred ways of describing it . `` The Red Flower ? ''
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Akela Bagheera Baloo Brother Flower Mowgli Red fire first minute