He never thrashed any one," answered the monk. "Now, gentlemen, if you will wait a minute I will announce you."
Off goes puss to this neighbour's house, and having thrashed the mother to begin with, she kidnapped and carried home one of her family.
'And here now is the youngest come home, and has thrashed me till he has made me come to you and ask for your daughter for him to wife; and he bids me say, besides, that he's a Master Thief.' And so he fell to crying and sobbing again.
But then it occurred to him that he did not know the name of a witness he could summon, and that a personal fight against a railway corporation was about the most hopeless in the world. He then thought he would seek out that conductor, lie in wait for him at some station, and thrash him, or get thrashed himself.