You're impatient; you want to pull up the bulb and see if it has any roots yet." I looked at him in a disappointed way, and he smiled.
"Come, come," he said; "at your age you can afford to wait a few days, if it is for your good.

There, wait and see, and I'll be plain with you; if they do not find you something better to do, I'll take you on here at once, and do the best I can for you, as far as teaching you to be a gardener goes." "O, thank you, sir!" I cried.
"Wait a bit," he said quietly, "wait a bit.

There I'm going to be very busy; I've got a cart to load.

So now suppose you be off." I shook hands with him and walked away surprised and pleased, but at the same time disappointed, and as I neared the end of the big loft I heard two or three more baskets come rattling down..