`` How do you do , Master ? '' he said heartily . -LRB- The Bayside pedagogue was invariably addressed as `` Master '' by young and old . -RRB- `` I 'm glad to see you . Here I am , trying to save my rosebushes . There are green bugs on 'em , Master -- green bugs , and they 're worrying the life out of me . '' I smiled , for Uncle Dick looked very unlike a worrying man , even over such a serious accident as green bugs . `` Your roses do n't seem to mind , Mr. Oliver , '' I said . `` They are the finest I have ever seen . '' The compliment to his roses , well-deserved as it was , did not at first engage his attention . He pretended to frown at me . `` Do n't get into any bad habit of mistering me , Master , '' he said . `` You 'd better begin by calling me Uncle Dick from the start and then you wo n't have the trouble of changing . Because it would come to that -- it always does . But come in , come in ! There 's a gate round here . I want to get acquainted with you . I have a taste for schoolmasters . I did n't possess it when I was a boy '' -LRB- a glint of fun appeared in his blue eyes -RRB- . `` It 's an acquired taste . ''
I accepted his invitation and went , not only into his garden but , as was proved later , XXXXX his confidence and affection .
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