The moon was going down when Mowgli and the two wolves came to Mother Wolf’s cave. ‘The men do not want me, Mother,’ called Mowgli. ‘I have come home, and I have brought the coat of Shere Khan.’
Mother Wolf came out of the cave, very happy to see Mowgli again, and to know that Shere Khan was dead
Form the jungle came the deep of Bagheera, we are pleased to see you.’
Then Mowgli took the coat of Shere Khan and put it on the great rock at the wolves’ meeting place. Akela lay on it and called, ‘Look well, O Wolves!’ And the Wolf-Pack came and looked, and saw that Shere Khan was dead.
‘Now,’ said Mowgli, ‘I do not belong to the Wolf-Pack, or to the man-Pack. I will hunt alone in the jungle.’
‘And we will hunt with you,’ said Grey Brother and the rest of Mother Wolf’s cubs.
And Mowgli went away into the jungle and lived and hunted with his brother, the wolves.