“Why isn’t he?”
“I could lick him with one hand.”
“I don’t know about that. But even if you could, that doesn’t prove that he can’t teach, does it?”
“He isn’t big enough to keep order.”
“Are you going to be disorderly?”
“I guess I won’t trouble him, if he don’t trouble me,” said Peter.
“What do you mean?”
“If he don’t interfere with me, I won’t interfere with him. I ain’t goin’ to be ordered round by a feller I can lick.”
“He won’t ask anything unreasonable of you,” said Alfred.
“He’d better not,” said Peter Groot, significantly.