The curve of the broken dome was above his head . `` Take him away . He dances like Mao the Peacock . He will crush our young , '' said the cobras inside . `` Hah ! '' said Kaa with a chuckle , `` he has friends everywhere , this manling . Stand back , manling . And hide you , O Poison People . I break down the wall . '' Kaa looked carefully till he found a discolored crack in the marble tracery showing a weak spot , made two or three light taps with his head to get the distance , and then lifting up six feet of his body clear of the ground , sent home half a dozen full-power smashing blows , nose-first . The screen-work broke and fell away in a cloud of dust and rubbish , and Mowgli leaped through the opening and flung himself between Baloo and Bagheera -- an arm around each big neck . `` Art thou hurt ? '' said Baloo , hugging him softly . `` 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 .
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