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Read these lines: "There is no one in the jungle that knows that I, Bagheera, carry that mark, the mark of the collar; and yet, Little Brother, I was born among men, and it was among men that my mother died. It was because of this that I paid the price for thee at the Council." Why did he pay for the cub?
AHe owed the wolf pack an old debt of meat
BHe wanted the cub to hunt beside him later
CHe was ordered to pay by the pack leader
DHe too was born among men and knows their life
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. He too was born among men and knows their life
1. 1. He first reveals a secret: a collar mark that nobody in the jungle knows about.
2. 2. He explains the mark by his own origin, born among men and raised among them.
3. 3. The words because of this tie the payment directly to that shared origin with the man-cub.
4. 4. No debt, no bargain about future hunting and no order from the leader appears in the lines.
_Source: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1894)_
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