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Meanwhile Baloo was running after the monkeys as fast as a heavy bear could . “ Stop and think ! ” said Bagheera . “ If we follow too close , they may drop him . ” “ Oh , I am the unhappiest of bears ! ” cried Baloo , and he rolled on the ground with his paws over his ears . “ Why did I hit his head instead of warning him ? ” Suddenly Baloo sat up . “ What a fool I am ! The Bandar - log are afraid of Kaa the rock snake . Kaa can climb as well as they can , and he steals young monkeys at night . Let’s go to Kaa . ” They found Kaa on a warm rock in the afternoon sun . Kaa was a python , a snake thirty feet long with no poison . When he wrapped his long body round an animal , that was the end . He had just changed his skin , and his new coat of brown and yellow was very beautiful . “ Good hunting ! ” called Baloo . “ Good hunting to us all , ” answered Kaa . “ Is there any news of food ? I am as empty as a dry well . ” “ The monkeys called you names , ” said Bagheera . “ They called you a footless yellow earthworm . ” Kaa did not show that he was angry , but the muscles in his throat moved . “ Those nut - stealers have taken our man’s cub , ” said Bagheera . “ He is the best and bravest man’s cub that ever was , ” said Baloo , “ and we love him , Kaa . ” “ The monkeys fear only me , ” said Kaa . “ A man - thing in their hands is in great danger . They get tired of everything , and they throw it away . And they called me an earthworm ! Where did they take him ? ” “ Look up , Baloo ! ” came a voice from the sky . It was Rann . “ The Bandar - log have taken Mowgli across the river to the monkey city , the Cold Lairs . Good hunting , all of you below ! ” “ He remembered the word for the birds while they were pulling him through the trees ! ” said Baloo proudly . “ Let’s go ! ” VII . The Cold Lairs The Cold Lairs was an old , empty city , lost in the jungle . A king built it long ago on a hill . The jungle animals hardly ever went there , but the monkeys used it as their home . It was half a night’s journey . Baloo soon had to stop to get his breath , so Bagheera and Kaa went on without him . Bagheera ran fast , but Kaa stayed next to him all the way . “ You are not slow ! ” said Bagheera . “ I am hungry , ” said Kaa . “ And they called me an earthworm . ” Mowgli had never seen a city before , and even this broken one seemed wonderful to him . Trees grew out of the walls of the empty palace and houses . The monkeys sat in the king’s council room and pretended to be men . Then they all shouted together , “ There is nobody in the jungle as wise and good and strong as the Bandar - log ! ” They did not let Mowgli sleep . “ The man’s cub will teach us to weave sticks together ! ” they cried . Mowgli began to weave some long plants , and the monkeys tried to copy him . But after a few minutes they got bored and began to pull each other’s tails .
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