… he felt Kaa’s back grow bigger and broader below him as the huge python puffed himself out, hissing with the noise of a sword drawn from a steel scabbard. ‘I have seen all the dead seasons,’ Kaa said at last, ‘and the great trees and the old elephants, and the rocks that were bare and sharp-pointed ere the moss grew. Art thou still alive, Manling?’ The Seonee wolf pack are threatened by a great troop of dholes, red dogs from the Deccan, who have slaughtered a wolf family, and are invading their territory. Mowgli has asked Kaa, the ancient rock python, one of the oldest creatures in the Jungle, to help find a way of defeating them. Kaa has been thinking back over all he has seen and known since the day he came from the egg. 
This is from “Red Dog” in The Second Jungle Book