<P> While herding buffalo for the village, Mowgli learns that the tiger is still planning to kill him, so with the aid of two wolves, he traps Shere Khan in a ravine where the buffalo trample him . The tiger dies, and Mowgli sets to skin him . Seeing this, Buldeo, a jealous hunter, goads the villagers into persecuting Mowgli and his adopted parents as sorcerers . Mowgli runs back to the jungle with Shere Khan's hide but soon learns that Buldeo and the villagers are planning to kill Messua and her husband . He rescues them and sends elephants, water buffaloes, and other animals to trample the village and its fields to the ground . </P> <P> In later stories in The Second Jungle Book, Mowgli finds and then discards an ancient treasure ("The King's Ankus"), not realising it is so valuable that men would kill to own it . With the aid of Kaa the python, he leads the wolves in a war against the Dhole ("Red Dog"). </P> <P> Finally, Mowgli stumbles across the village where his adopted human mother (Messua), is now living, which forces him to come to terms with his humanity and decide whether to rejoin his fellow humans in "The Spring Running". </P> <P> Rudyard Kipling adapted the Mowgli stories for The Jungle Play in 1899, but the play was never produced on stage . The manuscript was lost for almost a century . It was finally published in book form in 2000 . </P>

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