“ It is to pull the very whiskers of Death, but—Kaa, thou art, indeed, the wisest of all the Jungle.”
“ So many have said. Look now, if the dhole follow thee——”
“ As surely they will follow. Ho! ho! I have many little thorns under my tongue to prick into their hides.”
“ If they follow thee hot and blind, looking only at thy shoulders, those who do not die up above will take water either here or lower down, for the Little People will rise up and cover them. Now the Waingunga is hungry water, and they will have no Kaa to hold them, but will go down, such as live, to the shallows by the Seeonee Lairs, and there thy Pack may meet them by the throat.”
“ Ahai! Eowawa! Better could not be till the Rains fall in the dry season. There is now only the little matter of the run and the l
