‘Ye know the trail to Kanhiwara?’ Mowgli whispered.
They nodded.
‘Good. Remember, now, not to be afraid. And there is no need to go quickly. Only – only there may be some small singing in the Jungle behind you and before.’
‘Think you we would have risked a night in the Jungle through anything less than the fear of burning? It is better to be killed by beasts than by men,’ said Messua’s husband; but Messua looked at Mowgli and smiled.
‘I say,’ Mowgli went on, just as though he were Baloo repeating an old Jungle Law for the hundredth time to a foolish cub – ‘I say that not a tooth in the Jungle is bared against you; not a foot in the Jungle is lifted against you. Neither man nor beast shall stay you till you come within eye-shot of Kanhiwara. There will be a watch about you.’ He turned q
