diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f3848f2c8a..f958addaa9 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Tue Nov  2 22:50:25 2010  Aaron Patterson <aaron@tenderlovemaking.com>
+
+	* ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/visitor.rb (initialize): push accessor
+	  methods to subclass that actually uses them.
+
 Tue Nov  2 22:47:08 2010  Aaron Patterson <aaron@tenderlovemaking.com>
 
 	* ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/visitor.rb (accept): switch to
diff --git a/ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/visitor.rb b/ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/visitor.rb
index 0e33128f01..4d7772f428 100644
--- a/ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/visitor.rb
+++ b/ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/visitor.rb
@@ -1,15 +1,6 @@
 module Psych
   module Visitors
     class Visitor
-      attr_reader :started, :finished
-      alias :finished? :finished
-      alias :started? :started
-
-      def initialize
-        @started  = false
-        @finished = false
-      end
-
       def accept target
         visit target
       end
diff --git a/ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/yaml_tree.rb b/ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/yaml_tree.rb
index 6df1151ad7..38a42fcaff 100644
--- a/ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/yaml_tree.rb
+++ b/ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/yaml_tree.rb
@@ -8,8 +8,14 @@ module Psych
     #   builder.tree # => #<Psych::Nodes::Stream .. }
     #
     class YAMLTree < Psych::Visitors::Visitor
+      attr_reader :started, :finished
+      alias :finished? :finished
+      alias :started? :started
+
       def initialize options = {}, emitter = Psych::TreeBuilder.new
         super()
+        @started  = false
+        @finished = false
         @emitter  = emitter
         @st       = {}
         @ss       = ScalarScanner.new