'Twere veal, too, and that's the worst meat for keeping.

Roy 'ud kill us if he could; but he can't force _us_ on to Peckaby's rubbish.

We defy him to't." In point of defying Roy, the Dawsons had done that long ago.

There was open warfare between them, and skirmishes took place occasionally.

The first act of Roy, after it was known that Lionel was disinherited, had been to discharge old Dawson and his sons from work.