They answered the call with a stentorian roar; and if Dick Winthorpe had imitated Richard the Second just then, and called upon the crowd to accept him as their leader, they would have followed him to the attempt of any mad prank he could have designed.
"Thank ye, Mester Dick!" said Hickathrift, placing his great hand upon the lad's shoulder, as the squire forced his way to their side.

"I always knowed we was mates; but we're bigger mates now than ever we was before." "Ay, and so 'm _I_," said the big drain delver.

"Shake hands, young un.
You're English, you are.

So 'm I.

He's English, lads; that's what he is!" he roared as he seized Dick's hand and pumped it up and down.