`` Now this same Manling comes with soft , tickling words to this same Flathead , telling him that he is wise and strong and beautiful , and this same old Flathead believes and makes a place , thus , for this same stone-throwing Manling , and -- Art thou at ease now ? Could Bagheera give thee so good a resting-place ? '' Kaa had , as usual , made a sort of soft half-hammock of himself under Mowgli 's weight . The boy reached out in the darkness , and gathered in the supple cable-like neck till Kaa 's head rested on his shoulder , and then he told him all that had happened in the Jungle that night . `` Wise I may be , '' said Kaa at the end ; `` but deaf I surely am . Else I should have heard the pheeal . Small wonder the Eaters of Grass are uneasy . How many be the dhole ? '' `` I have not yet seen . I came hot-foot to thee . Thou art older than Hathi . But oh , Kaa , '' -- here Mowgli wriggled with sheerjoy , -- `` it will be good hunting . Few of us will see another moon . '' `` Dost THOU strike in this ? Remember thou art a Man ; and remember what Pack cast thee out . Let the Wolf look to the Dog . THOU art a Man . '' `` Last year 's nuts are this year 's black earth , '' said Mowgli . `` It is true that I am a Man , but it is in my stomach that this night I have said that I am a Wolf . I called the River and the Trees to remember .
I am of the Free People , XXXXX , till the dhole has gone by . ''
Flathead Hathi Kaa Manling Mowgli dhole hot-foot night resting-place sheerjoy