Know ye him not?
He said ye knew him!" "Ay," replied Sir Daniel, "I know the lad;" and he chuckled.

"But he has fainted; and, by my sooth, he might have had less to faint for! Hey, Dick?
Did I put the fear of death upon you ?" "Indeed, Sir Daniel, ye did that," said Dick, and sighed again at the mere recollection.

"Nay, sir, saving your respect, I had as lief 'a' met the devil in person; and to speak truth, I am yet all a-quake.

But what made ye, sir, in such a guise ?" Sir Daniel's brow grew suddenly black with anger.
"What made I ?" he said.

"Ye do well to mind me of it! What?
I skulked for my poor life in my own wood of Tunstall, Dick.