`` No ; I have another thought in my stomach . The Man-Pack shall not know what share I have in the sport . Make thine own hunt . I do not wish to see them . '' `` Be it so , '' said Bagheera . `` Ah , now they come ! '' The conference under the peepul-tree had been growing noisier and noisier , at the far end of the village . It broke in wild yells , and a rush up the street of men and women , waving clubs and bamboos and sickles and knives . Buldeo and the Brahmin were at the head of it , but the mob was close at their heels , and they cried , `` The witch and the wizard ! Let us see if hot coins will make them confess ! Burn the hut over their heads ! We will teach them to shelter wolf-devils ! Nay , beat them first ! Torches ! More torches ! Buldeo , heat the gun-barrels ! '' Here was some little difficulty with the catch of the door . It had been very firmly fastened , but the crowd tore it away bodily , and the light of the torches streamed into the room where , stretched at full length on the bed , his paws crossed and lightly hung down over one end , black as the Pit , and terrible as a demon , was Bagheera . There was one half-minute of desperate silence , as the front ranks of the crowd clawed and tore their way back from the threshold , and in that minute Bagheera raised his head and yawned -- elaborately , carefully , and ostentatiously -- as he would yawn when he wished to insult an equal . The fringed lips drew back and up ; the red tongue curled ; the lower jaw dropped and dropped till you could see half-way down the hot gullet ; and the gigantic dog-teeth stood clear to the pit of the gums till they rang together , upper and under , with the snick of steel-faced wards shooting home round the edges of a safe .
Next instant the street was empty ; XXXXX had leaped back through the window , and stood at Mowgli 's side , while a yelling , screaming torrent scrambled and tumbled one over another in their panic haste to get to their own huts .
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