But what is that stain on your coat, Godfrey?
I should think you had been down on your back on the ground." "Oh," said Godfrey, rather embarrassed, "I happened to slip as I was wrestling with the fellow, and fell on my back.

However, I was up again directly and gave it to him, I can tell you.

If father hadn't stopped me I'd have laid him out," he continued, in a swaggering tone.
It will be seen that Godfrey did not always confine himself to the truth.

Indeed, he found it rather hard at all times to admit either that he had been in the wrong or had been worsted.

Even if his mother sometimes suspected that his accounts were a trifle distorted, she forbore to question their accuracy.