But I must try to return to my own jungle . Baloo will surely beat me , but that is better than chasing silly rose leaves with the Bandar-log . '' No sooner had he walked to the city wall than the monkeys pulled him back , telling him that he did not know how happy he was , and pinching him to make him grateful . He set his teeth and said nothing , but went with the shouting monkeys to a terrace above the red sandstone reservoirs that were half-full of rain water . There was a ruined summer-house of white marble in the center of the terrace , built for queens dead a hundred years ago . The domed roof had half fallen in and blocked up the underground passage from the palace by which the queens used to enter . But the walls were made of screens of marble tracery -- beautiful milk-white fretwork , set with agates and cornelians and jasper and lapis lazuli , and as the moon came up behind the hill it shone through the open work , casting shadows on the ground like black velvet embroidery . Sore , sleepy , and hungry as he was , Mowgli could not help laughing when the Bandar-log began , twenty at a time , to tell him how great and wise and strong and gentle they were , and how foolish he was to wish to leave them . `` We are great . We are free . We are wonderful . We are the most wonderful people in all the jungle ! We all say so , and so it must be true , '' they shouted . `` Now as you are a new listener and can carry our words back to the Jungle-People so that they may notice us in future , we will tell you all about our most excellent selves . '' Mowgli made no objection , and the monkeys gathered by hundreds and hundreds on the terrace to listen to their own speakers singing the praises of the Bandar-log , and whenever a speaker stopped for want of breath they would all shout together : `` This is true ; we all say so . '' Mowgli nodded and blinked , and said `` Yes '' when they asked him a question , and his head spun with the noise . `` Tabaqui the Jackal must have bitten all these people , '' he said to himself , `` and now they have madness . Certainly this is dewanee , the madness . Do they never go to sleep ? Now there is a cloud coming to cover that moon .
If it were only a big enough cloud I might try to run away XXXXX the darkness .
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