Then Kaa opened his mouth for the first time and spoke one long hissing word, and the far-away monkeys, hurrying to the defense of the Cold Lairs, stayed where they were, cowering, till the loaded branches bent and crackled under them. His fur was much thicker than Bagheera’s, but he had suffered sorely in the fight. And so they ran, stammering with terror, to the walls and the roofs of the houses, and Baloo drew a deep breath of relief.
Kaa was everything that the monkeys feared in the jungle, for none of them knew the limits of his power, none of them could look him in the face, and none had ever come alive out of his hug. Generations of monkeys had been scared into good behavior by the stories their elders told them of Kaa, the night thief, who could slip along the branches as quietly as moss grows, and steal away the strongest monkey that ever lived of old Kaa, who could make himself look so like a dead branch or a rotten stump that the wisest were deceived, till the branch caught them. The monkeys scattered with cries of-“Kaa! It is Kaa! Run! Run!”
It was sent home with shut mouth in silence, and there was no need of a second. His first stroke was delivered into the heart of the crowd round Baloo. A python four or five feet long can knock a man down if he hits him fairly in the chest, and Kaa was thirty feet long, as you know. 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 fighting strength of a python is in the driving blow of his head backed by all the strength and weight of his body. Then Kaa came straight, quickly, and anxious to kill. All that while the fight with Baloo went on, and the monkeys yelled in the tank round Bagheera, and Mang the Bat, flying to and fro, carried the news of the great battle over the jungle, till even Hathi the Wild Elephant trumpeted, and, far away, scattered bands of the Monkey-Folk woke and came leaping along the tree-roads to help their comrades in the Cold Lairs, and the noise of the fight roused all the day birds for miles round. He had no intention of losing any advantage of the ground, and coiled and uncoiled himself once or twice, to be sure that every foot of his long body was in working order. Kaa had only just worked his way over the west wall, landing with a wrench that dislodged a coping stone into the ditch. Baloo fears that Kaa might have sneaked away at the last minute.Īnd I’m delighted to dedicate this episode to Finn and Orlo whose family supports Stornory on Patreon. Bagheera has been completely overcome by monkey people and is calling for help.
Bagheera the black pantha, Baloo the bear, and Kaa the python have come to his rescue and are fighting in a desperate struggle. Mowgli has been kidnapped by the Monkey People, the Bandar-Log. Hello, this is Richard and I’m here with another episode of the Jungle book.
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