Then you were woke out of your sleep by a blow, eh ?" "Weer I?
I don't know." "Tell me who have you had a quarrel with lately ?" "Quarrel ?" "Well, row, then." "Wi' him," said the big fellow, pointing at Dick.
"Oh, but he would not have come to you in the night!" "Who said he would, mester ?" growled Bargle menacingly.

"Not he.

He'd come up square and give a man a doubler in the chest and--" "Yes, yes," said the engineer impatiently; "but I want to know who it was made this attack upon you--this cowardly attack.

You say it was while you slept." "Yes, I s'pose so; but don't you trouble about that, mester.

I'm big enough to fight my bit.