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When Pack meets with Pack in the Jungle, and neither will go from the trail,
Lie down till the leaders have spoken it may be fair words shall prevail.
When ye fight with a Wolf of the Pack, ye must fight him alone and afar,
Lest others take part in the quarrel, and the Pack be dimin- ished by war.
The Lair of the Wolf is his refuge, and where he has made him
his home, Not even the Head Wolf may enter, not even the Council
may come.
The Lair of the Wolf is his refuge, but where he has digged it
too plain, The Council shall send him a message, and so he shall change
it again.
If ye kill before midnight, be silent, and wake not the woods
with your bay, Lest ye frighten the deer from the crops, and the brothers go
empty away.
Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs
as they need, and ye can; But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill
Man!
If ye plunder his Kill from a weaker, devour not all in thy
pride; Pack-Right is the right of the meanest; so leave him the head
and the hide.
The Kill of the Pack is the meat of the Pack. Ye must eat
where it lies;
And no one may carry away of that meat to his lair, or he dies.