I am of the Free People, Kaa, till the dhole has gone by.

Thou art a man, or else the Pack had fled before the dhole.

Till the dhole have gone by my Word comes not back to me.

It smelled of a dhole that had been there before me.

I leapt atop the rock and covered the dhole's scent with my own.

To remain ashore was death, and every dhole knew it.

Good hunting, Little Brother, and remember the dhole bites low.

The dhole, the dhole of the Dekkan-RedDog, the Killer!

They kill every long-fang, every bear, every fox and dhole.

I will play with the dhole at twilight, for the dhole hunts best by day.

Then sought I my Blood-Right and found the dhole.

The dhole shuddered, his head dropped, and he lay still, and Won-tolla dropped above him.

Thou hast never met the dhole-theRed Killer.

But he knew, for Hathi had told him, what a terrible thing a dhole hunting-pack was.

Wait here for the dhole, and be glad that the Man-cub and I strike on thy side.

Look now, if the dhole follow thee--