Now you let the kid alone, Dreer.

If you want to try that sort of thing you try it on me." "All right!" Dreer stepped forward and shot his closed fist into Penny's face.

The blow missed its full force, since Penny, seeing it coming, dodged so that it caught him on the side of the chin.

But it was enough to send him staggering to the wall.
"You keep out of it, you skinny monkey!" shouted Dreer.

"All you're good for is to make rotten noises on that beastly fiddle of yours! Want more, do you ?" Penny evidently did, for he came back with a funny sidelong shuffle, arms extended, and Dreer, perhaps surprised at the other's pluck, moved cautiously away.
"You've had what was coming to you, Durkin," he growled.