You've learned your place, and I know mine.

Be a good dog and all 'll go well and the goose hang high.

Be a bad dog, and I'll whale the stuffin' outa you.

Understand ?" As he spoke he fearlessly patted the head he had so mercilessly pounded, and though Buck's hair involuntarily bristled at touch of the hand, he endured it without protest.

When the man brought him water he drank eagerly, and later bolted a generous meal of raw meat, chunk by chunk, from the man's hand.
He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken.