He has eyes like red fire . By my honor , Messua , he is not unlike thy boy that was taken by the tiger . '' `` Let me look , '' said a woman with heavy copper rings on her wrists and ankles , and she peered at Mowgli under the palm of her hand . `` Indeed he is not . He is thinner , but he has the very look of my boy . '' The priest was a clever man , and he knew that Messua was wife to the richest villager in the place . So he looked up at the sky for a minute and said solemnly : `` What the jungle has taken the jungle has restored . Take the boy into thy house , my sister , and forget not to honor the priest who sees so far into the lives of men . '' `` By the Bull that bought me , '' said Mowgli to himself , `` but all this talking is like another looking-over by the Pack ! Well , if I am a man , a man I must become . '' The crowd parted as the woman beckoned Mowgli to her hut , where there was a red lacquered bedstead , a great earthen grain chest with funny raised patterns on it , half a dozen copper cooking pots , an image of a Hindu god in a little alcove , and on the wall a real looking glass , such as they sell at the country fairs . She gave him a long drink of milk and some bread , and then she laid her hand on his head and looked into his eyes ; for she thought perhaps that he might be her real son come back from the jungle where the tiger had taken him . So she said , `` Nathoo , O Nathoo ! '' Mowgli did not show that he knew the name . `` Dost thou not remember the day when I gave thee thy new shoes ? '' She touched his foot , and it was almost as hard as horn . `` No , '' she said sorrowfully , `` those feet have never worn shoes , but thou art very like my Nathoo , and thou shalt be my son . '' Mowgli was uneasy , because he had never been under a roof before . But as he looked at the thatch , he saw that he could tear it out any time if he wanted to get away , and that the window had no fastenings . `` What is the good of a man , '' he said to himself at last , `` if he does not understand man 's talk ?
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