"They would have a nice time of it.

How would they go to work ?" "I am afraid that, if they saw us going to whip the Hillers, they would interfere." "They would, eh?
I'd like to see them undertake to hinder us.

Can't twenty fellows whip a dozen ?" "I don't know.

Every one calls Frank Nelson and his set the best boys in the village.

They never fight if they can help it; but they are plaguy smart fellows, I tell you; and, if we once get them aroused, we shall have a warm time of it, I remember a little circumstance that happened last winter.