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greater, though his hair is yellow and shiny as glass. Wherefore now I shall call him the Red Lad; and by that name meseemeth he shall be known far and wide.

Then they laughed all three, and the two knights drank, both of them, to the Red Lad, and Osberne pledged them and thanked them in turn. And well content was he with the way that things had gone.