‘It is right to punish me,’ sad Mowgli. ‘I did wrong.’
Bagheera hit him, very heavily for a panther, but very heavily for a little boy. Mowgli did not cry.
‘Now,’ said Bagheea, ‘jump on my back, Little Brother, and we will go home.’
One of the good things about Jungle Law is that, after you are punished, the matter is finished.