Some proposed to set the house on fire and leave him in it; others, that he should be reduced to a state of temporary insensibility, by knocking on the head; others, that he should be sworn to sit where he was until to-morrow at the same hour; others again, that he should be gagged and taken off with them, under a sufficient guard.

All these propositions being overruled, it was concluded, at last, to bind him in his chair, and the word was passed for Dennis.
'Look'ee here, Jack!' said Hugh, striding up to him: 'We are going to tie you, hand and foot, but otherwise you won't be hurt.

D'ye hear ?' John Willet looked at another man, as if he didn't know which was the speaker, and muttered something about an ordinary every Sunday at two o'clock.
'You won't be hurt I tell you, Jack--do you hear me ?' roared Hugh, impressing the assurance upon him by means of a heavy blow on the back.
'He's so dead scared, he's woolgathering, I think.

Give him a drop of something to drink here.

Hand over, one of you.' A glass of liquor being passed forward, Hugh poured the contents down old John's throat.