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## The Man-Cub Akela never raised his head from his paws, but went on with the monotonous, "Look well! A muffled roar came up from behind the rocks - the voice of Shere Khan. The cub is mine." "The cub? Akela never even twitched his ears. All he said was, "Look well! What has the Free People to do...

## The Man-Cub Akela never raised his head from his paws, but went on with the monotonous, "Look well! A muffled roar came up from behind the rocks - the voice of Shere Khan. The cub is mine." "The cub? Akela never even twitched his ears. All he said was, "Look well! What has the Free People to do with the orders of any, save the Free People? Look well!" There was a chorus of deep growls, and a young wolf in his fourth year flung back Shere Khan's question to Akela. "What have the Free People to do with a man's cub?" Now, the Law of the Jungle lays down that if there is any dispute as to the right of a cub to be accepted by the Pack, he must be spoken for by at least two members of the Pack who are not his father and mother. "Who speaks for this cub?" asked Akela. "Among the Free People who speaks?" There was no answer, and Mother Wolf got ready for what she knew would be her last fight, if things came to fighting. Then the only other creature who is allowed at the Pack Council - Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle; old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey - rose upon his hind quarters and grunted. "The man’s cub - the man’s cub? he said. I speak for the man’s cub. There is no harm in a man’s cub. I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth. Let him run with the Pack, and be entered with the others. I myself will teach him.” “We need yet another,” said Akela. “Baloo has spoken, and he is our teacher for the young cubs. Who speaks besides