Hast thou ever heard me speak of the Bandar-log till today ? '' `` No , '' said Mowgli in a whisper , for the forest was very still now Baloo had finished . `` The Jungle-People put them out of their mouths and out of their minds . They are very many , evil , dirty , shameless , and they desire , if they have any fixed desire , to be noticed by the Jungle People . But we do not notice them even when they throw nuts and filth on our heads . '' He had hardly spoken when a shower of nuts and twigs spattered down through the branches ; and they could hear coughings and howlings and angry jumpings high up in the air among the thin branches . `` The Monkey-People are forbidden , '' said Baloo , `` forbidden to the Jungle-People . Remember . '' `` Forbidden , '' said Bagheera , `` but I still think Baloo should have warned thee against them . '' `` I -- I ? How was I to guess he would play with such dirt . The Monkey People ! Faugh ! '' A fresh shower came down on their heads and the two trotted away , taking Mowgli with them . What Baloo had said about the monkeys was perfectly true . They belonged to the tree-tops , and as beasts very seldom look up , there was no occasion for the monkeys and the Jungle-People to cross each other 's path . But whenever they found a sick wolf , or a wounded tiger , or bear , the monkeys would torment him , and would throw sticks and nuts at any beast for fun and in the hope of being noticed . Then they would howl and shriek senseless songs , and invite the Jungle-People to climb up their trees and fight them , or would start furious battles over nothing among themselves , and leave the dead monkeys where the Jungle-People could see them . They were always just going to have a leader , and laws and customs of their own , but they never did , because their memories would not hold over from day to day , and so they compromised things by making up a saying , `` What the Bandar-log think now the jungle will think later , '' and that comforted them a great deal . None of the beasts could reach them , but on the other hand none of the beasts would notice them , and that was why they were so pleased when Mowgli came to play with them , and they heard how angry Baloo was .
They never meant to do any more -- the Bandar-log never mean anything XXXXX all ; but one of them invented what seemed to him a brilliant idea , and he told all the others that Mowgli would be a useful person to keep in the tribe , because he could weave sticks together for protection from the wind ; so , if they caught him , they could make him teach them .
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