I had no thought of leaving my master when my apprenticeship was over, nor had he any thought of 'letting me go. We understood each other well, he liked me and I liked him. He knew that he had in me one man who was not afraid of work, as he would say, and who would not shirk it. And so, indeed, he would often put me in charge of parties of workmen who were much older than I was. So it was that it happened ...