Aah ! '' `` It is only old Kaa making circles on the dust , '' said Mowgli . `` Let us go . '' And the three slipped off through a gap in the walls to the jungle . `` Whoof ! '' said Baloo , when he stood under the still trees again . `` Never more will I make an ally of Kaa , '' and he shook himself all over . `` He knows more than we , '' said Bagheera , trembling . `` In a little time , had I stayed , I should have walked down his throat . '' `` Many will walk by that road before the moon rises again , '' said Baloo . `` He will have good hunting -- after his own fashion . '' `` But what was the meaning of it all ? '' said Mowgli , who did not know anything of a python 's powers of fascination . `` I saw no more than a big snake making foolish circles till the dark came . And his nose was all sore . Ho ! Ho ! '' `` Mowgli , '' said Bagheera angrily , `` his nose was sore on thy account , as my ears and sides and paws , and Baloo 's neck and shoulders are bitten on thy account . Neither Baloo nor Bagheera will be able to hunt with pleasure for many days . '' `` It is nothing , '' said Baloo ; `` we have the man-cub again . ''
`` True , but he has cost us heavily in time which might have been spent in good hunting , in wounds , in hair -- I am half plucked along my back -- and last of all , XXXXX honor .
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