Mowgli always went to the meetings of the Wolf-Pack, and there he learnt something new one day. If he looked hard at and wolf, the wolf could not meet his eyes and looked away. Mowgli thought this was funny; he did not understand that he was different from the wolves.
All the Jungle-people were his friends-but not Shere Khan, of course. Mother Wolf told him that tiger wanted to kill him. ‘One day you must kill Shere Khan. If you don’t kill him, he will kill you.’ But Mowgli forgot. He was only a boy, not a wolf.