He had caught against the pail and fallen.
This gave me time to glance round and see in a half-blinded way that Philip was fighting with some other boy, who closed with him, and down they went together.
"Yah! yah! Cowards! cowards!" cried a voice that I well knew; and I saw giddily that Courtenay and Philip were running up the path, and that Shock was standing beside me.
"Well done!" cried another voice.

"What a licking you two give 'em!" Shock started, and ran, darting among the bushes, while I sat down on a barrow-handle, feeling rather thick and dizzy.
"I was coming to stop it.

Two to one's too bad; but that ragged chap come out at young Phil, and my word, he did give it him well.

Are you much hurt, my lad ?" "No, not much, Mr Bunce," I said, staring at him in rather a confused way.
"Here, I'll get some water," he said; and he went and dipped a pailful.
"Bathe your face in that." I did so, and felt clearer and refreshed directly.
"Go on," he said; "keep it up.

It will stop the bleeding.