There's time enough." "Sure he would," I said, because I know just how Mr.Ellsworth feels about things like that.

And for all I know, maybe he didn't want Skinny to have everything at the start, just so as he would be able to get some things all by himself later.

Because Mr.Ellsworth thinks that's the best way.

Of course, we always jollied Pee-wee about his belt-axe and about wearing his scout-knife and his drinking cup hanging from his belt right home in Bridgeboro, as if he was in South Africa, and Mr.Ellsworth always said he was the typical scout--that's the word he used--typical.
But now I began to think maybe it would cause some trouble and I hoped he wouldn't be giving Skinny any of that kind of talk.

But he did just the same, and it made a lot of trouble.