said the cow . `` Thus do they cry , '' Mysa answered contemptuously , `` who , having torn up the grass , know not how to eat it . '' `` For less than this , '' Mowgli groaned to himself , `` for less than this even last Rains I had pricked Mysa out of his wallow , and ridden him through the swamp on a rush halter . '' He stretched a hand to break one of the feathery reeds , but drew it back with a sigh . Mysa went on steadily chewing the cud , and the long grass ripped where the cow grazed . `` I will not die HERE , '' he said angrily . `` Mysa , who is of one blood with Jacala and the pig , would see me . Let us go beyond the swamp and see what comes . Never have I run such a spring running -- hot and cold together . Up , Mowgli ! '' He could not resist the temptation of stealing across the reeds to Mysa and pricking him with the point of his knife . The great dripping bull broke out of his wallow like a shell exploding , while Mowgli laughed till he sat down . `` Say now that the hairless wolf of the Seeonee Pack once herded thee , Mysa , '' he called . `` Wolf ! THOU ? '' the bull snorted , stamping in the mud . `` All the jungle knows thou wast a herder of tame cattle -- such a man 's brat as shouts in the dust by the crops yonder . THOU of the Jungle ! What hunter would have crawled like a snake among the leeches , and for a muddy jest -- a jackal 's jest -- have shamed me before my cow ? Come to firm ground , and I will -- I will ... '' Mysa frothed at the mouth , for Mysa has nearly the worst temper of any one in the Jungle .
XXXXX watched him puff and blow with eyes that never changed .
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