. The second jungle book. THE KINGS ANKUS These are the Four that are never content : that have never been filled since the Dews began— Jacalas mouth, and the glut of the Kite, and the hands of the Ape and the Eyes of Man. r / c- ? ? Jutigle Saymg. AA, the big rock-python, hadchanged his skin for per-haps the two hundredthtime since his birth ; andMowgh, who never forgotthat he owed his Hfe toKaa for a nights work atCold Lairs, which you mayperhaps remember, went tocongratulate him. Skin-changing always makes asnake moody and depressed_ till the new skin begins toshine and look beautiful. Kaa
. The second jungle book. THE KINGS ANKUS These are the Four that are never content : that have never been filled since the Dews began— Jacalas mouth, and the glut of the Kite, and the hands of the Ape and the Eyes of Man. r / c- ? ? Jutigle Saymg. AA, the big rock-python, hadchanged his skin for per-haps the two hundredthtime since his birth ; andMowgh, who never forgotthat he owed his Hfe toKaa for a nights work atCold Lairs, which you mayperhaps remember, went tocongratulate him. Skin-changing always makes asnake moody and depressed_ till the new skin begins toshine and look beautiful. Kaa never made sport ofMowgH any more, but accepted him, as the otherJungle People did, for the Master of the Jungle, and. iiS THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK brought him all the news that a python of his sizewould naturally hear. What Kaa did not knowabout the IMiddle Jungle, as they call it—the lifethat runs close to the earth or under it, the boulder,burrow, and the tree-bole life—might have beenwritten upon the smallest of his scales. That afternoon Mowgli was sitting in the circleof Kaas great coils, fingering the flaked and brokenold skin that lay all looped and twisted among therocks just as Kaa had left it, Kaa had verycourteously packed himself under Mowglis broad,bare shoulders, so that the boy was really resting ina living arm-chair. * Even to the scales of the eyes it is perfect, saidMowgli, under his breath, playing with the old skin. Strange to see the covering of ones own head atones own feet. Ay, but I lack feet, said Kaa ; and since thisis the custom of all my people, I do not find it thy skin never feel old and harsh ? Then go I and wash, Flathead ; but, it is true,in the great h
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