And hearken, that is their horn; blow we an answer: ho, noise! set thy lips to the brass." So then, when one horn had done its song, the other took it up, and all men of both hosts knew well that the horns blew but for truce and parley.
Now come the Toft-folk to the ford, and take the water, which was very shallow on their side, and when they come up on to the eyot, they find the Baron and his folk off their horses, and lying on the green grass, so they also lighted down and stood and hailed the new comers.

Then uprose the Lord Gandolf, and greeted the Toft-folk, and said: "Jack of the Tofts, thou ridest many-manned to-day." "Yea, Lord," said Jack, "and thou also.

What is thine errand ?" "Nay," said the Baron, "what is thine?
As for mine host here, there came a bird to Brimside and did me to wit that I should be like to need a throng if I came thy way; and sooth was that.

Come now, tell us what is toward, thou rank reiver, though I have an inkling thereof; for if this were a mere lifting, thou wouldst not sit still here amidst thy friends of Hazeldale." "Lord," said Jack o' the Tofts, "thou shalt hear mine errand, and then give heed to what thou wilt do.

Look to the bent under the wood, and tell me, dost thou see the blazon of the banner under which be my men ?" "That can I not," said the Lord Gandolf; "but I have seen the banner of Oakenrealm, which beareth the wood-woman with loins garlanded with oak-leaves, look much like to it at such a distance." Said Jack: "It is not ill guessed.