"Look here, if you don't speak I'll kick the tub over and let you down."
All in vain: Mike did not move, and Vince began to grow impatient.
"Here, I say," he cried, "I know I'm a bit of a beast sometimes, but you
can't say I'm sulky. I did nothing; and if it was I, you know I'd have
owned I was in the wrong and held out my fist--open; not like you did,
to knock a fellow down."