What would follow discovery he knew full Well.

The beating he could take; what he wouldn't stand would be, say, Gideon's flinging the books into the fire.

"He shan't, he shan't," said the boy's hot heart.

"If he does, I'll--I'll--" Through the window came Gaudylock's voice from the porch of the Bird in Hand.

"You Stay-at-homes--you don't know what's in the wilderness! There's good and there's bad, and there's much beside.