`` I was told to expect thee , '' he said . `` Now thou ` lt be so good as to keep to the main avenue , and not let me find a hare or a rabbit on thee when thou comest back . I shall look sharp for one , I tell thee . '' `` Not if it 's in the bottom of the soot-bag , '' quoth Grimes , and at that he laughed ; and the keeper laughed and said : `` If that 's thy sort , I may as well walk up with thee to the hall . '' `` I think thou best had . It 's thy business to see after thy game , man , and not mine . '' So the keeper went with them ; and , to Tom 's surprise , he and Grimes chatted together all the way quite pleasantly . He did not know that a keeper is only a poacher turned outside in , and a poacher a keeper turned inside out . They walked up a great lime avenue , a full mile long , and between their stems Tom peeped trembling at the horns of the sleeping deer , which stood up among the ferns . Tom had never seen such enormous trees , and as he looked up he fancied that the blue sky rested on their heads . But he was puzzled very much by a strange murmuring noise , which followed them all the way . So much puzzled , that at last he took courage to ask the keeper what it was . He spoke very civilly , and called him Sir , for he was horribly afraid of him , which pleased the keeper , and he told him that they were the bees about the lime flowers . `` What are bees ? '' asked Tom . `` What make honey . '' `` What is honey ? '' asked Tom . `` Thou hold thy noise , '' said Grimes . `` Let the boy be , '' said the keeper .
`` He 's a civil young chap now , and that 's more than he 'll be long XXXXX he bides with thee . ''
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