You know me, Hugh.

Nobody shall wrest this flag away.' 'Well said!' cried Hugh.

'Ha ha! Nobly said! That's the old stout Barnaby, that I have climbed and leaped with, many and many a day--I knew I was not mistaken in Barnaby .-- Don't you see, man,' he added in a whisper, as he slipped to the other side of Dennis, 'that the lad's a natural, and can be got to do anything, if you take him the right way?
Letting alone the fun he is, he's worth a dozen men, in earnest, as you'd find if you tried a fall with him.

Leave him to me.

You shall soon see whether he's of use or not.' Mr Dennis received these explanatory remarks with many nods and winks, and softened his behaviour towards Barnaby from that moment.