Plainly for the moment he resented the advice.

But the next very suddenly he smiled.
"Thanks! Don't trouble! I can hold my own and a bit over.

There's no great difficulty in downing a drunken brute like that." "Don't you be too cock-sure!" the farmer warned him.

"He's a heavy weight, and he's licked bigger men than you when he's been in just the state he's in now." But the English boy only laughed, and turned to follow his adversary.
Every man present pressed after him.

A well-sustained fight, though an event of no uncommon occurrence, was a form of entertainment that never failed to attract.