Eh, Solomon ?" "P'r'aps," said Brother Solomon, looking right away from us.

"We shall see." My heart sank as I saw how cold and unsympathetic he seemed.

I felt that I should never like him, and that he would never like me.

He had hardly looked at me, but when he did there was to me the appearance in his eyes of his being a man who hated all boys as nuisances and to make matters worse, he took his eyes off a bed of onions to turn them suddenly on his brother and say: "Hadn't he better go and make up his bundle ?" "Yes, to be sure," said Old Brownsmith.

"Go and tell Mrs Dodley you want your clean clothes, my boy; and tell her my brother Solomon's going to have a bit with us." "And see whether your boy has given my horse his oats, will you ?" said Brother Solomon.
I went away, feeling very heavy-hearted, and found Shock in the stable, in the next stall to old Basket, watching a fine stoutly-built cob that had just been taken out of a light cart.