`` I am sore , hungry , and not a little bruised . But , oh , they have handled ye grievously , my Brothers ! Ye bleed . '' `` Others also , '' said Bagheera , licking his lips and looking at the monkey-dead on the terrace and round the tank . `` It is nothing , it is nothing , if thou art safe , oh , my pride of all little frogs ! '' whimpered Baloo . `` Of that we shall judge later , '' said Bagheera , in a dry voice that Mowgli did not at all like . `` But here is Kaa to whom we owe the battle and thou owest thy life . Thank him according to our customs , Mowgli . '' Mowgli turned and saw the great Python 's head swaying a foot above his own . `` 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 .
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