I don't suppose he'd touch my Bill or my Ann'Lizy with a ten-foot pole.

Put him to the wheel.

Bad egg! bad egg!' For some moat unaccountable reason, old Peterkin had a bitter prejudice against the boy, on whose account he had once been turned from the Tracy house; and though he had forgiven the Tracys, and would now have voted for Frank for Congressman if he had the chance, he still cherished his animosity against Harold, designating him as an upstart and a bad egg, who was to be put to the wheel.

So Harold was 'put to the wheel' until he got a bit of steel in his eye, and his hands were blistered.

But he did not mind the latter so much, because Jerrie cried over them at night and kissed them in the morning, and bathed them in cosmoline, and called Peterkin a mean old thing, and offered to go herself to the wheel.
But to this Harold only laughed.