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"His face is all bruised today by thy softness. Ugh." "Better he should be bruised from head to foot by me who love him than that he should come to harm through ignorance," Baloo answered very earnestly. "I am now teaching him the Master Words of the Jungle that shall protect him with the birds and the Snake People, and all that hunt on four feet, except his own pack.
"Thou hast been with the Monkey People the gray apes the people without a law the eaters of everything. That is great shame." No one else cared." He snuffled a little. "The pity of the Monkey People!" Baloo snorted. "The stillness of the mountain stream! The cool of the summer sun! And then, man-cub?"
The Lory said that he had one at home, but he had forgotten to bring it. "You can't make anything out of these Wonderland creatures," said Miss Muffet. "I can't really feel that they are animals I have known, though of course I know their names." When Bagheera was asked his opinion, he only growled that it was all in the day's work. But wise old Baloo answered: "It all depends on grammar."
"What need of talk?" said Baloo slowly, turning his head to where Mowgli lay. "Akela by the river said it, that Mowgli should drive Mowgli back to the Man-Pack. I said it. But who listens now to Baloo? Bagheera where is Bagheera this night? he knows also. It is the Law." "When we met at Cold Lairs, Manling, I knew it," said Kaa, turning a little in his mighty coils.
"Follow, then," said Mowgli, and the four followed at his heels with their tails between their legs. "This comes of living with the Man-Pack," said Bagheera, slipping down after them. "There is more in the Jungle now than Jungle Law, Baloo." The old bear said nothing, but he thought many things.
So Baloo, the Teacher of the Law, taught him the Wood and Water Laws: how to tell a rotten branch from a sound one; how to speak politely to the wild bees when he came upon a hive of them fifty feet above ground; what to say to Mang the Bat when he disturbed him in the branches at midday; and how to warn the water-snakes in the pools before he splashed down among them.
"Forbidden," said Bagheera, "but I still think Baloo should have warned thee against them." "I I? How was I to guess he would play with such dirt. The Monkey People! Faugh!" A fresh shower came down on their heads and the two trotted away, taking Mowgli with them. What Baloo had said about the monkeys was perfectly true.
Baloo panted. "At that speed! It would not tire a wounded cow. Teacher of the Law cub-beater a mile of that rolling to and fro would burst thee open. Sit still and think! Make a plan. This is no time for chasing. They may drop him if we follow too close." "Arrula! Whoo! They may have dropped him already, being tired of carrying him. Who can trust the Bandar-log? Put dead bats on my head!
Therefore they followed Baloo and Bagheera and Mowgli through the jungle very quietly till it was time for the midday nap, and Mowgli, who was very much ashamed of himself, slept between the Panther and the Bear, resolving to have no more to do with the Monkey People.
"Worse and worse," said the Black Panther, as the boy rose spluttering. "First Baloo is to be skinned, and now he is a cocoanut. Be careful that he does not do what the ripe cocoanuts do." "And what is that?" said Mowgli, off his guard for the minute, though that is one of the oldest catches in the Jungle. "Break thy head," said Bagheera quietly, pulling him under again.
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