'You couldn't have said anything more hurtful to my feelings,' Josh told him, and knocked him down.

There was a hole in one of his orchards where they'd been rooting up an old apple-tree.

He put the fellow in that, tilled him up to his neck in earth, and kept him there till he apologised.

Not at all an easy thing for a Justice of the Peace to pass off: but, bless you, folks said that he came of a clever county family, and hoped his son would be better.

The fellow didn't even bring an action." Mr.Rogers broke off suddenly, and seemed to meditate a new train of thought.