"Put on your specs if your eyes ain't good." The man from Pike could no longer evade looking at his late comrade.
He pretended not to know him.
"Stranger," said he, with one hand on the handle of his knife, "are you tired of life ?" "I am neither tired of life nor afraid of you," said Joshua manfully.
"You don't know me, or------" "Yes, I do.

You're the man that says he can whip his weight in wildcats.

I don't believe you dare to face your weight in tame cats." "Sdeath!" roared the bully.

"Do you want to die on the spot ?" "Not particularly, old Rip-tail.

Don't talk sech nonsense.