`` So this is the manling , '' said Kaa . `` Very soft is his skin , and he is not unlike the Bandar-log . Have a care , manling , that I do not mistake thee for a monkey some twilight when I have newly changed my coat . '' `` We be one blood , thou and I , '' Mowgli answered . `` I take my life from thee tonight . My kill shall be thy kill if ever thou art hungry , O Kaa . '' `` All thanks , Little Brother , '' said Kaa , though his eyes twinkled . `` And what may so bold a hunter kill ? I ask that I may follow when next he goes abroad . '' `` I kill nothing , -- I am too little , -- but I drive goats toward such as can use them . When thou art empty come to me and see if I speak the truth . I have some skill in these -LSB- he held out his hands -RSB- , and if ever thou art in a trap , I may pay the debt which I owe to thee , to Bagheera , and to Baloo , here . Good hunting to ye all , my masters . '' `` Well said , '' growled Baloo , for Mowgli had returned thanks very prettily . The Python dropped his head lightly for a minute on Mowgli 's shoulder . `` A brave heart and a courteous tongue , '' said he . `` They shall carry thee far through the jungle , manling . But now go hence quickly with thy friends . Go and sleep , for the moon sets , and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see . '' The moon was sinking behind the hills and the lines of trembling monkeys huddled together on the walls and battlements looked like ragged shaky fringes of things .
Baloo went down to the tank for a drink and Bagheera began to put his fur XXXXX order , as Kaa glided out into the center of the terrace and brought his jaws together with a ringing snap that drew all the monkeys ' eyes upon him .
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