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 of 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 . Kaa was everything that the monkeys feared in the jungle , for none of them knew the limits of his power , none of them could look him in the face , and none had ever come alive out of his hug . And so they ran , stammering with terror , to the walls and the roofs of the houses , and Baloo drew a deep breath of relief . His fur was much thicker than Bagheera 's , but he had suffered sorely in the fight . Then Kaa opened his mouth for the first time and spoke one long hissing word , and the far-away monkeys , hurrying to the defense of the Cold Lairs , stayed where they were , cowering , till the loaded branches bent and crackled under them .
The monkeys XXXXX the walls and the empty houses stopped their cries , and in the stillness that fell upon the city Mowgli heard Bagheera shaking his wet sides as he came up from the tank .
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