"It is a pleasure to give such scoundrels as these a lesson.

Is anyone hurt?
I fancy I have got a scratch or two." Several of the men had been cut with knives, but the blows had been given so hurriedly that no one was seriously injured.

Twelve men lay on the ground.
"Now sir, what shall we do with these fellows ?" "I should say we had better leave them alone, Gibbons.

I don't want any row over the affair.

It is the work of these two fellows here.