He'd have shot him.

And if I ketches him ferretin' about there again, I'll drop a big flat stone down on him, and then chuck him off the cliff." "If you do, I'll chuck you down after him," said Ram.
"What ?" cried the man, bursting into a fresh roar of laughter.

"Oh, come, I likes that.

Why, you pup! That's what you are--a pup." This was uttered with what was meant to be a most contemptuous intonation of the voice.
"Pups can bite hard sometimes, Jemmy," said Ram slowly; "and I shan't have Miss Celia's dog touched." "Ho! Then he's to come here when he likes, and show everybody the way into our store, is he?
Well, we shall see." "Yes; and you'd better go and see if they've gone." "Ah, yes, lad, I'll go and see if they've gone; and we needn't quarrel 'bout it, for it strikes me as little missus won't come down here no more, I scared her too much." Jemmy burst into another hoarse fit of laughing, and went lumping off in his big sea-boots to see if Celia and her dog were well out of sight, before rejoining Ram to take the prisoner his repast..