Methinks you would be a kind master; and he is a loving and faithful creature.

I might even lose him in London, where, they tell me, rogues abound.

I would sooner leave him in your hands; and if I want him back some day, I will ask him of Captain Jack." The bargain was struck.

Captain Jack accompanied Tom to the farthest limits of the forest, giving him meantime much information about life in London, and astonishing him by the intimate knowledge he possessed of life in every grade of society.
Tom listened in wonder and amaze; but Captain Jack answered his questions in such a way as to leave him little the wiser.

He managed, however, to make friends with Wildfire almost as quickly as with his master; for the two men rode by turns, and Captain Jack's horsemanship was of that finished kind which every horse understands and responds to.
"You are right not to take such a creature into London," said Captain Jack, after trying the paces of Wildfire over a stretch of springy turf.