Mother Wolf Quotes

“And it is I, Raksha [the Demon], who answer. The man’s cub is mine, Lungri—mine to me! He shall not be killed. He shall live to run with the Pack and to hunt with the Pack; and in the end, look you, hunter of little naked cubs—frog-eater—fish-killer, he shall hunt thee!”

“His mother did not call him Lungri [the Lame One] for nothing,” said Mother Wolf quietly.

“Is that a man’s cub?” said Mother Wolf. “I have never seen one. Bring it here.”

“How little! How naked, and—how bold!”

“He came naked, by night, alone and very hungry; yet he was not afraid!

And that lame butcher would have killed him and would have run off to the Waingunga while the villagers here hunted through all our lairs in revenge!

Keep him? Assuredly I will keep him.

Lie still, little frog.

O thou Mowgli—for Mowgli the Frog I will call thee—the time will come when thou wilt hunt Shere Khan as he has hunted thee.

I loved thee more than ever I loved my cubs.”