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"Keep thy hand on my shoulder," Bagheera whispered. "Keep it there, or I must go back must go back to Kaa. Aah!" "It is only old Kaa making circles on the dust," said Mowgli. "Let us go." And the three slipped off through a gap in the walls to the jungle. "Whoof!" said Baloo, when he stood under the still trees again. "Never more will I make an ally of Kaa," and he shook himself all over.
Kaa was not a poison snake in fact he rather despised the poison snakes as cowards but his strength lay in his hug, and when he had once lapped his huge coils round anybody there was no more to be said. "Good hunting!" cried Baloo, sitting up on his haunches. Like all snakes of his breed Kaa was rather deaf, and did not hear the call at first.
As for THY Man-cub, from whom thou hast taken a Word and so laid him open to Death, THY Man-cub is with ME, and if he be not already dead the fault is none of thine, bleached dog! Wait here for the dhole, and be glad that the Man-cub and I strike on thy side." Kaa flashed up-stream again, and moored himself in the middle of the gorge, looking upward at the line of the cliff.
Kaa never made fun of Mowgli any more, but accepted him, as the other Jungle People did, for the Master of the Jungle, and brought him all the news that a python of his size would naturally hear.
"Beyond doubt then it is no small thing that takes two such hunters leaders in their own jungle I am certain on the trail of the Bandar-log," Kaa replied courteously, as he swelled with curiosity. "Indeed," Baloo began, "I am no more than the old and sometimes very foolish Teacher of the Law to the Seeonee wolf-cubs, and Bagheera here "
He flung it from him quickly and it dropped crossways just behind the great snake's hood, pinning him to the floor. In a flash, Kaa's weight was upon the writhing body, paralysing it from hood to tail. The red eyes burned, and the six spare inches of the head struck furiously right and left. "Kill!" said Kaa, as Mowgli's hand went to his knife.
"It is my Word which I have spoken. The Trees know, the River knows. Till the dhole have gone by my Word comes not back to me." "Ngssh! This changes all trails. I had thought to take thee away with me to the northern marshes, but the Word even the Word of a little, naked, hairless Manling is the Word. Now I, Kaa, say " "Think well, Flathead, lest thou tie thyself into the death-knot also.
"Give me permission to come with you," said Kaa. "A blow more or less is nothing to thee, Bagheera or Baloo, but I I have to wait and wait for days in a wood-path and climb half a night on the mere chance of a young ape. Psshaw! The branches are not what they were when I was young. Rotten twigs and dry boughs are they all." "Maybe thy great weight has something to do with the matter," said Baloo.
Then Kaa came straight, quickly, and anxious to kill. The fighting strength of a python is in the driving blow of his head backed by all the strength and weight of his body. If you can imagine a lance, or a battering ram, or a hammer weighing nearly half a ton driven by a cool, quiet mind living in the handle of it, you can roughly imagine what Kaa was like when he fought.
"The best and wisest and boldest of man-cubs my own pupil, who shall make the name of Baloo famous through all the jungles; and besides, I we love him, Kaa." "Ts! Ts!" said Kaa, weaving his head to and fro. "I also have known what love is. There are tales I could tell that " "That need a clear night when we are all well fed to praise properly," said Bagheera quickly.
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