Yo bin allus badly i' want o' soombody to tak yo down a peg or two.

Now I'll show yo.

I'll not fight yo, but I'll flog yo--_flog yo_--d' yo hear ?' And raising his carter's whip he brought it down on the boy's back and legs.

David tried desperately to rise--in vain--Jim had him by the collar; and four or five times more the heavy whip came down, avenging with each lash many a slumbering grudge in the victor's soul.
Then Jim felt his arm firmly caught.

'Now, Mister Wigson,' cried the landlord--a little man, but a wiry--'yo'll not get me into trooble.
Let th' yoong ripstitch go.