Shock's happy enough his way or he wouldn't have been singing all night atop of the load.

There, you're a boy, and just you be thankful that you are, my lad; being a boy's about as good a thing as there is." We had nearly finished our breakfast when Ike turned on me sharply.
"Why, you don't look as if you was glad to be a boy," he said.
"I was thinking about what Mr Brownsmith will say when he knows I've been in such trouble," I replied.
"Ah, he won't like it! But I suppose you ain't going to tell him ?" "Yes," I said, "I shall tell him." Ike remained silent for a few minutes, and sat slowly filling his pipe.
At last, as we rose to go, after Ike had paid the waitress, he said to me slowly: "Sometimes doing right ain't pleasant and doing wrong is.

It's quite right to go and tell Old Brownsmith and get blowed up, and it would be quite wrong not to tell him, but much the nystest.

Howsoever, you tell him as soon as we get back.

He can't kill yer for that, and I don't s'pose he'll knock yer down with the kitchen poker and then kick you out.