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Updated: May 29, 2025
"So you've come home, you lazy good-for-nothing hussy," she screamed. "Where have you been? You don't care how hard I have to work so long as you can go a pleasuring. There's plenty for you to do here. Set about washing these plates if you don't want a trouncing." Mrs. Fenton was in a vile temper and Gay's heart somewhat failed at the sight of her.
The beseiged were successful after two months of the most desperate fighting, and the women of Lyme proved Amazonian in the help they gave their menfolk. In 1672 the Dutch gave the English fleet a trouncing within sight of the town. The most famous event connected with the Cobb was the landing of Monmouth thereon in June, 1685.
It was natural and creditable to the lad that, as he looked at the fallen steed, and reflected how faithfully he had served him, his hands should seek his eyes. So they did, and he spent full ten minutes in a regular old-fashioned cry, such as he had not enjoyed since receiving a good trouncing at the hands of his parent.
"She needs a trouncing, if ever a child did," and with that she and her friend resumed their shopping. The cloud had vanished from Elsie's face, and all was serene again. Her mother seemed somewhat ashamed of her little girl's bad manners, as was shown by her apologetic air when she observed to the trimmer that Elsie was as queer a child as ever lived.
Cartoonists, moved by a common impulse, unanimously drew pictures of Uncle Sam rolling up his sleeves and preparing to give the pesky interlopers a good trouncing before hurling them back into the Pacific. Unfortunately the presence of the grass prevented quick eviction of the unwelcome visitors.
"Suppose these rebels are right and, dammy, but I think they are and suppose our King's troops are roundly trouncing them and I think they are, too do you mean to say you'd draw sword and go a-prowling, seeking for some obliging enemy to knock you in the head or hang you for a rebel to your neighbor's apple-tree?" "Something of that sort," I said, good-humoredly.
"The war will be over by Christmas," said Joe Vickers. "Let them European nations fight it out between them," said Abner Reese. "When he was a boy I gave him many a good trouncing," shouted Norman Douglas, who seemed to be referring to some one high in military circles in Charlottetown. "Yes, sir, I walloped him well, big gun as he is now."
It was a vigorous, breathless performance, and the manufacturers' attorney confessed afterward that she had given him a good trouncing. I turned to look at the author of this spontaneous outburst and found that it was the Honorable Edward G. Thatcher, whose unfeigned pride in his daughter-in-law was good to see. When the applause had ceased, Mrs. Owen sighed deeply and ejaculated: "Well, well!"
He further said that he'd bet I'd run across some one some day who would give me a good trouncing. I told him I had it all figured out that I could afford to take one good threshing for every five dead beats, provided I could collect from the other four. We continued to travel by team, and my great stronghold was to collect bad debts, many of which I collected almost by force.
After that I had no serious trouble with those near my own age, as it was generally understood and considered that I had a license to fight and a disposition to do so when necessary to protect my own rights. When my mother heard of this she said I was a regular "tough." Mr. Keefer said I could whip my weight in wild cats anyhow. She said I deserved a good trouncing.
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