MAKING A GOOD JOB OF IT A fight between two boys is not a very pleasant subject with which to deal.

In this particular circumstance there were, however, mitigating conditions that would almost make it a pleasure to describe the battle.
Hugh was standing up for the rights of the weak, and had only plunged into the scrimmage when he saw that Nick had treated Owen in a most cruel manner.
Once he started in and he meant business.

There could be no half-way measures in handling so crafty and unprincipled a customer as the town bully.

He must be carried off his feet with the impetuosity of the attack; and while still bewildered thoroughly punished.

As Hugh had well said he needed a lasting lesson.