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 . `` 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 XXXXX hungry , O Kaa . ''
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