<P> With the aid of Akela, Mowgli and Grey Brother divide the buffalo herd in two and stampede them from opposite ends of the ravine, trampling the tiger to death between them . </P> <P> Mowgli, who has promised to lay Shere Khan's skin on the wolf pack's Council Rock, sets about skinning the tiger . Buldeo has been told of the stampede by the other village boys, and soon arrives to chastise Mowgli . Buldeo demands that Mowgli hand the skin over to him for the reward . Mowgli refuses, and summons Akela to restrain him . </P> <P> When Mowgli and Akela let him go, the hunter returns to the village and tells the villagers Mowgli is a shapeshifting sorcerer . By the time the unsuspecting Mowgli returns with the buffalo, Buldeo has turned the entire village except Messua against him and they drive him away . </P> <P> Confused and disgusted by their behaviour, Mowgli fulfils his promise to lay out Shere Khan's hide on Council Rock and dances upon it, singing of his emotional confusion . The pack offers to take Mowgli back, but he refuses to forgive them for casting him out earlier . Instead he decides that from now on he will hunt alone, except for his four wolf - brothers who refuse to be parted from him . </P>

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