`` I now remember that I was once a man . '' `` Slowly -- slowly . It was haste killed the Yellow Snake that ate the sun . We two spoke together under the earth , and I spoke of thee , naming thee as a man . Said the White Hood -LRB- and he is indeed as old as the Jungle -RRB- : ` It is long since I have seen a man . Let him come , and he shall see all these things , for the least of which very many men would die . ' '' `` That MUST be new game . And yet the Poison People do not tell us when game is afoot . They are an unfriendly folk . '' `` It is NOT game . It is -- it is -- I can not say what it is . '' `` We will go there . I have never seen a White Hood , and I wish to see the other things . Did he kill them ? '' `` They are all dead things . He says he is the keeper of them all . '' `` Ah ! As a wolf stands above meat he has taken to his own lair . Let us go . '' Mowgli swam to bank , rolled on the grass to dry himself , and the two set off for Cold Lairs , the deserted city of which you may have heard .
XXXXX was not the least afraid of the Monkey People in those days , but the Monkey People had the liveliest horror of Mowgli .
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