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Buldeo
was
explaining
how
the
tiger
that
had
carried
away
Messua
's
son
was
a
ghost-tiger
,
and
his
body
was
inhabited
by
the
ghost
of
a
wicked
,
old
money-lender
,
who
had
died
some
years
ago
.
"
And
I
know
that
this
is
true
,
"
he
said
,
"
because
Purun
Dass
always
limped
from
the
blow
that
he
got
in
a
riot
when
his
account
books
were
burned
,
and
the
tiger
that
I
speak
of
he
limps
,
too
,
for
the
tracks
of
his
pads
are
unequal
.
"
"
True
,
true
,
that
must
be
the
truth
,
"
said
the
gray-beards
,
nodding
together
.
"
Are
all
these
tales
such
cobwebs
and
moon
talk
?
"
said
Mowgli
.
"
That
tiger
limps
because
he
was
born
lame
,
as
everyone
knows
.
To
talk
of
the
soul
of
a
money-lender
in
a
beast
that
never
had
the
courage
of
a
jackal
is
child
's
talk
.
"
Buldeo
was
speechless
with
surprise
for
a
moment
,
and
the
head-man
stared
.
"
Oho
!
It
is
the
jungle
brat
,
is
it
?
"
said
Buldeo
.
"
If
thou
art
so
wise
,
better
bring
his
hide
to
Khanhiwara
,
for
the
Government
has
set
a
hundred
rupees
on
his
life
.
Better
still
,
talk
not
when
thy
elders
speak
.
"
Mowgli
rose
to
go
.
"
All
the
evening
I
have
lain
here
listening
,
"
he
called
back
over
his
shoulder
,
"
and
,
except
once
or
twice
,
Buldeo
has
not
said
one
word
of
truth
concerning
the
jungle
,
which
is
at
his
very
doors
.
How
,
then
,
shall
I
believe
the
tales
of
ghosts
and
gods
and
goblins
which
he
says
he
has
seen
?
"
"
It
is
full
time
that
boy
went
to
herding
,
"
said
the
head-man
,
while
Buldeo
puffed
and
snorted
at
Mowgli
's
impertinence
.
The
custom
of
most
Indian
villages
is
for
a
few
boys
to
take
the
cattle
and
buffaloes
out
to
graze
in
the
early
morning
,
and
bring
them
back
at
night
.
The
very
cattle
that
would
trample
a
white
man
to
death
allow
themselves
to
be
banged
and
bullied
and
shouted
at
by
children
that
hardly
come
up
to
their
noses
.
So
long
as
the
boys
keep
with
the
herds
they
are
safe
,
for
not
even
the
tiger
will
charge
a
mob
of
cattle
.
But
if
they
straggle
to
pick
flowers
or
hunt
lizards
,
they
are
sometimes
carried
off
.
Mowgli
went
through
the
village
street
in
the
dawn
,
sitting
on
the
back
of
Rama
,
the
great
herd
bull
.
The
slaty-blue
buffaloes
,
with
their
long
,
backward-sweeping
horns
and
savage
eyes
,
rose
out
their
byres
,
one
by
one
,
and
followed
him
,
and
Mowgli
made
it
very
clear
to
the
children
with
him
that
he
was
the
master
.
He
beat
the
buffaloes
with
a
long
,
polished
bamboo
,
and
told
Kamya
,
one
of
the
boys
,
to
graze
the
cattle
by
themselves
,
while
he
went
on
with
the
buffaloes
,
and
to
be
very
careful
not
to
stray
away
from
the
herd
.
An
Indian
grazing
ground
is
all
rocks
and
scrub
and
tussocks
and
little
ravines
,
among
which
the
herds
scatter
and
disappear
.
The
buffaloes
generally
keep
to
the
pools
and
muddy
places
,
where
they
lie
wallowing
or
basking
in
the
warm
mud
for
hours
.
Mowgli
drove
them
on
to
the
edge
of
the
plain
where
the
Waingunga
came
out
of
the
jungle
;
then
he
dropped
from
Rama
's
neck
,
trotted
off
to
a
bamboo
clump
,
and
found
Gray
Brother
.
"
Ah
,
"
said
Gray
Brother
,
"
I
have
waited
here
very
many
days
.
What
is
the
meaning
of
this
cattle-herding
work
?
"
