Instead the boy was delighted.
"I am sorry to see you leave home, Bob," said his mother, with just the hint of tears in her eyes, "but I think it will be the best thing for you." "So do I, mom.

Hurrah! This is the best ever!" Then Bob began to dance a sailor's hornpipe.
"It seems to me," said Mr.Henderson to himself, as he started for the mill, "that Bob's punishment is more of a pleasure than anything else.

Still, if it does him good, I'll not regret it.".