Messua said timidly . `` Because thou wast my son , whom the tiger took , and because I loved thee very dearly . They said that I was thy mother , the mother of a devil , and therefore worthy of death . '' `` And what is a devil ? '' said Mowgli . `` Death I have seen . '' The man looked up gloomily , but Messua laughed . `` See ! '' she said to her husband , `` I knew -- I said that he was no sorcerer . He is my son -- my son ! '' `` Son or sorcerer , what good will that do us ? '' the man answered . `` We be as dead already . '' `` Yonder is the road to the Jungle '' -- Mowgli pointed through the window . `` Your hands and feet are free . Go now . '' `` We do not know the Jungle , my son , as -- as thou knowest , '' Messua began . `` I do not think that I could walk far . '' `` And the men and women would be upon our backs and drag us here again , '' said the husband . `` H 'm ! ''
said XXXXX , and he tickled the palm of his hand with the tip of his skinning-knife ; `` I have no wish to do harm to any one of this village -- YET .
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