You've got to risk it." I did tell Old Brownsmith all my trouble when we reached home, and he listened attentively and nodding his head sometimes.

Then he said softly, "Ah!" and that was all.
But I heard him scold Master Shock tremendously for going off from his work without leave.
Shock had been looking on from a distance while I was telling Old Brownsmith, and this put it into his head, I suppose, that I had been speaking against him, for during the next month he turned his back whenever he met me, and every now and then, if I looked up suddenly, it was to see him shaking his fist at me, while his hair seemed to stand up more fiercely than ever out of his crownless straw hat like young rhubarb thrusting up the lid from the forcing-pot put on to draw the stalks..