midnight
said Bagheera , yawning , though his eyes showed that he was delighted with the amusement . `` Me to sing to naked men ! But let us try . '' He lowered his head so that the sound would travel , and cried a long , long , `` Good hunting '' -- a midnight call in the afternoon , which was quite awful enough to begin with . Mowgli heard it rumble , and rise , and fall , and die off in a creepy sort of whine behind him , and laughed to himself as he ran through the Jungle . He could see the charcoal-burners huddled in a knot ; old Buldeo 's gun-barrel waving , like a banana-leaf , to every point of the compass at once . Then Gray Brother gave the _ Ya-la-hi !