He dives down the minute I touch the gate, but comes up after I've kept still a minute.

I like to watch him.

But he must hate me, for I took away a nice green fly and some little millers one day." "Did you ever hear the story of Bruce and his spider?
Most children know and like that," said Miss Celia, seeing that he seemed interested.
"No, 'm; I don't know ever so many things most children do," answered Ben, soberly; for, since he had been among his new friends, he had often felt his own deficiencies.
"Ah, but you also know many things which they do not.

Half the boys in town would give a great deal to be able to ride and run and leap as you do; and even the oldest are not as capable of taking care of themselves as you are.

Your active life has done much in some ways to make a man of you; but in other ways it was bad, as I think you begin to see.