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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: grunted, one after another, "We wait," and Hathi strode
forward, till he was nearly knee-deep in the pool by the Peace
Rock. Lean and wrinkled and yellow-tusked though he was,
he looked what the Jungle knew him to be--their master.
"Ye know, children," he began, "that of all things ye most fear
Man"; and there was a mutter of agreement.
"This tale touches thee, Little Brother," said Bagheera
to Mowgli.
"I? I am of the Pack--a hunter of the Free People," Mowgli
answered. "What have I to do with Man?"
"And ye do not know why ye fear Man?" Hathi went on. "This is
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