Folk would go with them if they saw them striving and starving wi' dumb patience; but if there was once any noise o' fighting and struggling--even wi' knobsticks--all was up, as they know by th' experience of many, and many a time before. 
Folk would go with them if they saw them striving patiently; but if there was any fighting, all was up, as they knew from many a time before. 