`` Ngssh ! This changes all trails . I had thought to take thee away with me to the northern marshes , but the Word -- even the Word of a little , naked , hairless Manling -- is the Word . Now I , Kaa , say -- '' `` Think well , Flathead , lest thou tie thyself into the death-knot also . I need no Word from thee , for well I know -- '' `` Be it so , then , '' said Kaa . `` I will give no Word ; but what is in thy stomach to do when the dhole come ? '' `` They must swim the Waingunga . I thought to meet them with my knife in the shallows , the Pack behind me ; and so stabbing and thrusting , we a little might turn them down-stream , or cool their throats . '' `` The dhole do not turn and their throats are hot , '' said Kaa . `` There will be neither Manling nor Wolf-cub when that hunting is done , but only dry bones . '' `` Alala ! If we die , we die . It will be most good hunting . But my stomach is young , and I have not seen many Rains . I am not wise nor strong . Hast thou a better plan , Kaa ? '' `` I have seen a hundred and a hundred Rains . Ere Hathi cast his milk-tushes my trail was big in the dust . By the First Egg , I am older than many trees , and I have seen all that the Jungle has done . '' `` But THIS is new hunting , '' said Mowgli .
`` Never before have the XXXXX crossed our trail . ''
Alala Egg Flathead Hathi Mowgli Ngssh Waingunga death-knot dhole shallows