All this will show you how much Mowgli had to learn by heart , and he grew very tired of saying the same thing over a hundred times . But , as Baloo said to Bagheera , one day when Mowgli had been cuffed and run off in a temper , `` A man 's cub is a man 's cub , and he must learn all the Law of the Jungle . '' `` But think how small he is , '' said the Black Panther , who would have spoiled Mowgli if he had had his own way . `` How can his little head carry all thy long talk ? '' `` Is there anything in the jungle too little to be killed ? No . That is why I teach him these things , and that is why I hit him , very softly , when he forgets . '' `` Softly ! What dost thou know of softness , old Iron-feet ? '' Bagheera grunted . `` His face is all bruised today by thy -- softness . Ugh . '' `` Better he should be bruised from head to foot by me who love him than that he should come to harm through ignorance , '' Baloo answered very earnestly . `` I am now teaching him the Master Words of the Jungle that shall protect him with the birds and the Snake People , and all that hunt on four feet , except his own pack . He can now claim protection , if he will only remember the words , from all in the jungle . Is not that worth a little beating ? '' `` Well , look to it then that thou dost not kill the man-cub . He is no tree trunk to sharpen thy blunt claws upon . But what are those Master Words ? I am more likely to give help than to ask it '' -- Bagheera stretched out one paw and admired the steel-blue , ripping-chisel talons at the end of it -- `` still I should like to know . ''
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