The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling Chapter 7 Page 52

to say nothing at all, but to pay the tax and plough the land.

After a long time the river cleared, and those that came down it had been clearly drowned by the floods, as I could well see; and though it was not so easy then to get food, I was heartily glad of it. A little killing here and there is no bad thing — but even the Mugger is sometimes satisfied, as the saying is.”

“Marvellous! Most truly marvellous!” said the Jackal. “I am become fat through merely hearing about so much good eating. And afterward what, if it be permitted to ask, did the Protector of the Poor do?”

“I said to myself — and by the Right and Left of Gunga! I locked my jaws on that vow — I said I would never go roving any more.