I've been mighty mean.

But I couldn't help it, pa.
When you put a wild horse in a pen, it don't do to prod him and throw things and--That's what they've done to me.

I bite and kick like any bronc.

When you're hurt, constant, you get spells when you've got to hurt back.

I've been rotten to her, and now this coming on top of it--" "Wha'd that dancin' dude do, anyhow ?" Allie related her experience with Professor Delamater; she told it all up to the burst of shouting that followed her through the lobby.