Crossword-Solution: DHOLE 5 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The note changed to a long, despairing bay; and “Dhole!” it said, “Dhole! dhole! dhole!” They heard tired feet on the rocks, and a gaunt wolf, streaked with red on his flanks, his right fore-paw useless, and his jaws white with foam, flung himself into the circle and lay gasping at Mowgli’s feet.

Then sought I my Blood-Right and found the dhole.” “How many?” said Mowgli quickly; the Pack growled deep in their throats.

Red Hunters all: grown dogs of their Pack, heavy and strong for all that they eat lizards in the Dekkan.” What Won-tolla had said meant that the dhole, the red hunting-dog of the Dekkan, was moving to kill, and the Pack knew well that even the tiger will surrender a new kill to the dhole.

The dhole, for instance, do not begin to call themselves a pack till they are a hundred strong; whereas forty wolves make a very fair pack indeed.

Therefore I--” he raised his voice, “I say that when the dhole come, and if the dhole come, Mowgli and the Free People are of one skin for that hunting; and I say, by the Bull that bought me--by the Bull Bagheera paid for me in the old days which ye of the Pack do not remember--_I_ say, that the Trees and the River may hear and hold fast if I forget; _I_ say that this my knife shall be as a tooth to the Pack--and I do not think it is so blunt.