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"Yes, sir," said the giant diffidently

"Sir," pursued Mr Shrig, "you're a Nob, I know, a Corinthian by

your looks, a Buck, sir, a Dash, a 'eavy Toddler, but also, I takes

the liberty o' telling you as you're only a man, arter all, like the

rest on us, and it's thatto Now v'en a ood blood for me, I makes that man my

pal, and my pal I allus trusts"

"And you shall find me worthy of your confidence," said Barnabas,

"and there's h, indeed, you hardly know

me--really"

"More than you think, sir Besides, it ain't v'ot a cove tells me

about 'imself as matters, nor v'ot other coves tell me about a cove,

as oes by,--the

cock of 'is eye, an' all the rest of it And then, I knows as your

name's Barnabas Barty--"

"Barty!--you know that?" exclai,--"ho in