Laws, how they did fight! I knowed th' boys 'd like it when they onct got square at it.

Th' boys ain't had no fair chanct up t' now, but this time they showed what they was.

I knowed it 'd turn out this way.

Yeh can't lick them boys.

No, sir! They 're fighters, they be." He breathed a deep breath of humble admiration.