I said that you were a bully, John Haynes; and there's not a boy here that doesn't know it to be true." "Take care!" said John, turning white with passion.
"While I'm about it, there's something more I want to say," continued Wilbur undauntedly.

"Yesterday you knocked my little brother off his sled and sent him home crying.

If you do it again, you will have somebody else to deal with." John trembled with anger.

It would have done him good to "pitch into" Wilbur, but the latter looked him in the face so calmly and resolutely that discretion seemed to him the better part of valor, and with an oath he turned away.
"I don't know what's got into John Haynes," said Wilbur.

"I never liked him, but now he seems to be getting worse and worse every day.".