Crossword-Solution: DHOLES 6 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Mowgli’s wanderings had taken him to the edge of the high grassy downs of the Dekkan, and he had seen the fearless dholes sleeping and playing and scratching themselves in the little hollows and tussocks that they use for lairs.

Akela knew something of the dholes, too, for he said to Mowgli quietly, “It is better to die in a Full Pack than leaderless and alone.

Thou wilt stay here, Kaa, till I come again with my dholes?” “Ay, but what if they kill thee in the Jungle, or the Little People kill thee before thou canst leap down to the river?” “When to-morrow comes we will kill for to-morrow,” said Mowgli, quoting a Jungle saying; and again, “When I am dead it is time to sing the Death Song.

Mowgli looked down with a smile, and imitated perfectly the sharp chitter-chatter of Chikai, the leaping rat of the Dekkan, meaning the dholes to understand that he considered them no better than Chikai.

When he came to the last tree he took the garlic and rubbed himself all over carefully, and the dholes yelled with scorn.