The stones slip under my feet ! Wait my coming , O most infamous Bandar-log ! '' He panted up the terrace only to disappear to the head in a wave of monkeys , but he threw himself squarely on his haunches , and , spreading out his forepaws , hugged as many as he could hold , and then began to hit with a regular bat-bat-bat , like the flipping strokes of a paddle wheel . A crash and a splash told Mowgli that Bagheera had fought his way to the tank where the monkeys could not follow . The Panther lay gasping for breath , his head just out of the water , while the monkeys stood three deep on the red steps , dancing up and down with rage , ready to spring upon him from all sides if he came out to help Baloo . It was then that Bagheera lifted up his dripping chin , and in despair gave the Snake 's Call for protection -- `` We be of one blood , ye and I '' -- for he believed that Kaa had turned tail at the last minute . Even Baloo , half smothered under the monkeys on the edge of the terrace , could not help chuckling as he heard the Black Panther asking for help . Kaa had only just worked his way over the west wall , landing with a wrench that dislodged a coping stone into the ditch . He had no intention of losing any advantage of the ground , and coiled and uncoiled himself once or twice , to be sure that every foot of his long body was in working order . All that while the fight with Baloo went on , and the monkeys yelled in the tank round Bagheera , and Mang the Bat , flying to and fro , carried the news of the great battle over the jungle , till even Hathi the Wild Elephant trumpeted , and , far away , scattered bands of the Monkey-Folk woke and came leaping along the tree-roads to help their comrades in the Cold Lairs , and the noise of the fight roused all the day birds for miles round . Then Kaa came straight , quickly , and anxious to kill . The fighting strength of a python is in the driving blow of his head backed by all the strength and weight of his body . If you can imagine a lance , or a battering ram , or a hammer weighing nearly half a ton driven by a cool , quiet mind living in the handle of it , you can roughly imagine what Kaa was like when he fought . A python four or five feet long can knock a man down if he hits him fairly in the chest , and Kaa was thirty feet long , as you know . His first stroke was delivered into the heart of the crowd round Baloo . It was sent home with shut mouth in silence , and there was no need of a second . The monkeys scattered with cries of -- `` Kaa ! It is Kaa ! Run ! Run ! ''
Generations of monkeys had been scared into good behavior by the stories their elders told them XXXXX Kaa , the night thief , who could slip along the branches as quietly as moss grows , and steal away the strongest monkey that ever lived ; of old Kaa , who could make himself look so like a dead branch or a rotten stump that the wisest were deceived , till the branch caught them .
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