Then two or three boys laughed and sneered, and a big, brutal fellow, who was standing in the middle of the room, picked up a slipper and shied it at the kneeling boy, calling him a sniveling young shaver.
" Excuse me, ladies and gentleman, " said the sergeant, " but as I have mentioned at the door to this smart young shaver, " (which he hadn't), " I am on a chase in the name of the king, and I want the blacksmith" .