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Updated: June 19, 2025
I have followed him all day at noon in the white sunlight. I herded him as the wolves herd buck. I am Bagheera! Bagheera! Bagheera! As I dance with my shadow, so danced I with those men. Look!"
"We dare not wait for thee. Follow, Baloo. We must go on the quick-foot Kaa and I." "Feet or no feet, I can keep abreast of all thy four," said Kaa shortly. Baloo made one effort to hurry, but had to sit down panting, and so they left him to come on later, while Bagheera hurried forward, at the quick panther-canter.
"It is not good hunting to leave game afoot. Follow!" said the panther. "Those eight shod feet have not gone far." No more was said for fully an hour, as they worked up the broad trail of the four men with shod feet. It was clear, hot daylight now, and Bagheera said, "I smell smoke."
"There is no one in the jungle that knows that I, Bagheera, carry that mark the mark of the collar; and yet, Little Brother, I was born among men, and it was among men that my mother died in the cages of the king's palace at Oodeypore. It was because of this that I paid the price for thee at the Council when thou wast a little naked cub. Yes, I too was born among men. I had never seen the jungle.
"The grass is dry," Mowgli answered, pulling up a tuft. "Aowh?" said Bagheera. He seemed to be thinking of other things. "I say, IS it well for the Black Panther so to mouth and cough, and howl and roll? Remember, we be the Masters of the Jungle, thou and I." "Indeed, yes; I hear, Man-cub." Bagheera rolled over hurriedly and sat up, the dust on his ragged black flanks. Who is so strong as Mowgli?
Did the wind wake you, too? I think we are going to have a thunder storm, it is so hot and gusty. I heard poor Bagheera mewing and scratching at the door, so I was just going down to let him in before the rain comes." "Yes," I achieved. Then, finding my voice secure: "I will let in the cat. Where is Vere?" "He did not wake up, so I tiptoed out. Why?"
"Now this same Manling comes with soft, tickling words to this same Flathead, telling him that he is wise and strong and beautiful, and this same old Flathead believes and makes a place, thus, for this same stone-throwing Manling, and Art thou at ease now? Could Bagheera give thee so good a resting-place?" Kaa had, as usual, made a sort of soft half-hammock of himself under Mowgli's weight.
Ho! ho!" "Nay, listen," said Bagheera. "The fever is out of my blood now. Let them find ME there! Few would leave their houses after meeting me. It is not the first time I have been in a cage; and I do not think they will tie ME with cords." "Be wise, then," said Mowgli, laughing; for he was beginning to feel as reckless as the panther, who had glided into the hut. "Pah!" Bagheera grunted.
"Better than catnip, Bagheera?" I questioned. "You wouldn't bolt from it, either, would you?" Phillida's battered pet relaxed luxuriously, by way of answer, sniffed toward the hand I withdrew, and composed itself to sleep. I put the pomander in my waistcoat pocket. I could not deny as mere nightmare the Thing which had visited me. Better confront that fact! It was real. Only, real in what sense?
Baloo went down to the tank for a drink and Bagheera began to put his fur in order, as Kaa glided out into the center of the terrace and brought his jaws together with a ringing snap that drew all the monkeys' eyes upon him. "The moon sets," he said. "Is there yet light enough to see?" From the walls came a moan like the wind in the tree-tops "We see, O Kaa." "Good.
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