Then Tom and Bob went to the sideboard where the decanter was, and mixed a glass of bitters and handed it to him, and he held it in his hand and waited till Tom's and Bob's was mixed, and then they bowed and said, Our duty to you, sir, and madam; and THEY bowed the least bit in the world and said thank you, and so they drank, all three, and Bob ...
Baloo is a main fictional character featured in Rudyard Kipling 's The Jungle Book from 1894 and The Second Jungle Book from 1895. Baloo, a bear, and Bagheera, a panther, save Mowgli from Shere Khan the tiger, and endeavor to teach Mowgli the Law of the Jungle in many of the stories of the Jungle Book.
Bagheera is the tritagonist of Disney's 1967 film the Jungle Book, and the tetartagonist in its sequel. He serves as the guardian of Man-Cub, Mowgli, for most of the original film and the somewhat reluctant companion of Baloo. It supposedly happened due to the mistake in the Nina Daruzes' (Russian translator) translation of the original book and Russian cartoon series Adventures of Mowgli (1967-1971), where Bagheera also appears as a female. 2  Ironically, Bagheera's name actually means black tiger in Hindi.