Which detail best shows the boy was wrong about his assumptions about the man?
(16) When the big man began to feel in the right-hand pockets of his gray coat, the child trembled so excessively
that he shook the great arm on which he sat.
(17) The man looked quickly at him. "What is the matter, my lad?" he asked; and his voice, though gruff, did not
sound unkind. "You are not afraid of a big man, are you? Do you think I am an ogre?"
(18) "Yes!" said the boy; and he gave one sob, and then stopped himself.
(19) The gray man burst into a great roar of laughter, which made every one in the car jump in his seat.
(20) Still laughing, he drew his hand from his pocket, and in it was-not a knife, but a beautiful, shining, golden
pear. "Take that, young Hop-o'-my-thumb," he said, putting it in the Boy's hands. "If you will eat that, I promise not
to eat you, not even to take a single bite. Are you satisfied?"
