On the bank lay the skeletons of a couple of young deer and a buffalo . Mowgli could see that neither wolf nor jackal had touched the hones , which were laid out naturally . `` They came beyond the line ; they did not know the Law , '' murmured Mowgli , `` and the Little People killed them . Let us go ere they wake . '' `` They do not wake till the dawn , '' said Kaa . `` Now I will tell thee . A hunted buck from the south , many , many Rains ago , came hither from the south , not knowing the Jungle , a Pack on his trail . Being made blind by fear , he leaped from above , the Pack running by sight , for they were hot and blind on the trail . The sun was high , and the Little People were many and very angry . Many , too , were those of the Pack who leaped into the Waingunga , but they were dead ere they took water . Those who did not leap died also in the rocks above . But the buck lived . '' `` How ? '' `` Because he came first , running for his life , leaping ere the Little People were aware , and was in the river when they gathered to kill . The Pack , following , was altogether lost under the weight of the Little People . '' `` The buck lived ? '' Mowgli repeated slowly . `` At least he did not die THEN , though none waited his coming down with a strong body to hold him safe against the water , as a certain old fat , deaf , yellow Flathead would wait for a Manling -- yea , though there were all the dholes of the Dekkan on his trail . What is in thy stomach ? '' Kaa 's head was close to Mowgli 's ear ; and it was a little time before the boy answered .
`` It is to pull the very whiskers of Death , but -- XXXXX , thou art , indeed , the wisest of all the Jungle . ''
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