THE KING'S ANKUS
These are the Four that are never content: that have never been filled since the Dews began—
Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the Kite, and the hands of the Ape and the Eyes of Man.
Jungle Saying.
Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the Kite, and the hands of the Ape and the Eyes of Man.
Jungle Saying.
aa, the big rock-python, had changed his skin for perhaps the two hundredth time since his birth; and Mowgli, who never forgot that he owed his life to Kaa for a night's work at Cold Lairs, which you may perhaps remember, went to congratulate him. Skin-changing always makes a snake moody and depressed till the new skin begins to shine and look beautiful. Kaa never made sport of Mowgli any more, but accepted him, as the other Jungle People did, for the Master of the Jungle, and
