He got roughly used, poor fellow, and at last changed his tune from threats to whines, and eventually, with the aid of a few parting kicks, was permitted to depart in peace.

And he never tried on bullying with us again, except indeed when he was fortunate enough to get hold of one of us singly in a lonely comer.

And even then he generally heard of it afterwards.
But, boys, mind this.

There's nothing more likely than that in your struggle for independence you will, if victorious, be tempted to become bullies yourselves.

In your anxiety to "pay out" your old enemy, you may forget that you are yourselves falling into the very transgression for which you have chastised him.