Being an animal charmer he could see more things than most people could and many of them were things he never talked about.

He saw some of them now in this boy.

"Aye, that we do," he answered.
Mary looked hard too, but she said nothing.
"Just this minute," said Colin, "all at once I remembered it myself--when I looked at my hand digging with the trowel--and I had to stand up on my feet to see if it was real.

And it is real! I'm well--I'm well!" "Aye, that th' art!" said Dickon.
"I'm well! I'm well!" said Colin again, and his face went quite red all over.
He had known it before in a way, he had hoped it and felt it and thought about it, but just at that minute something had rushed all through him--a sort of rapturous belief and realization and it had been so strong that he could not help calling out.
"I shall live forever and ever and ever!" he cried grandly.

"I shall find out thousands and thousands of things.