Tha'st got no time to lose." "Oh, I do like to hear you talk to him!" Mary said, laughing delightedly.

"Ben Weatherstaff scolds him and makes fun of him, and he hops about and looks as if he understood every word, and I know he likes it.

Ben Weatherstaff says he is so conceited he would rather have stones thrown at him than not be noticed." Dickon laughed too and went on talking.
"Tha' knows us won't trouble thee," he said to the robin.

"Us is near bein' wild things ourselves.

Us is nest-buildin' too, bless thee.
Look out tha' doesn't tell on us." And though the robin did not answer, because his beak was occupied, Mary knew that when he flew away with his twig to his own corner of the garden the darkness of his dew-bright eye meant that he would not tell their secret for the world..