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"This is very extraordinary behaviour in Clegg!" "But then, sir, your young man is a rayther extraordinary young man. 'Owsoever he's gone, sir, and I appre'end as he ain't a-comin' back judgin' by vat 'e says in 'is letter." "What letter?"
"Boys," he said at last, "I've been figgerin' that he's just madder'n blazes at what you done to the sails, and that as soon's he works his mad off he'll turn tail. Judgin' from what he said to me, it ain't safe to tackle him right away. It will only keep him mad. Hold tight for a little while and let's see what he'll do when he cools.
The captain plunged desperately on. "Will you, Thankful?" he begged. "I know I'm an old codger, but I ain't in my second childhood, not yet. I I'd try mighty hard to make you happy. I haven't got anybody of my own in the world. Neither have you except this brother of yours, and, judgin' from his letter and what you say, HE won't take any care; he'll BE a care, that's all.
The door was thrown open. Seth entered, looking sheepish, and sat down in the little cane-seated rocker. "Say," he began, after a moment of uncomfortable silence, "would you mind now that I've begged your pardon and all tellin' me what did happen while I was away. I imagine, judgin' by the looks of things in the kitchen, that there was er well, consider'ble doin', as the boys say." He grinned.
You must have had quite a bit of water in your reservoir when she let go, Johnson, judgin' by results." "What do you mean?" "You ain't be'n down the creek, then?" "No, I ain't. I'm goin' now. I had to git the men to work fixin' the dam." "What I mean is this! There's about fifty head of cattle, more or less, that's layin' sprinkled around on top of the mud.
Don't get him too good, though; that wouldn't be natural. And don't get him too bad, neither. I know it's the fashion, judgin' by the sea yarns I've read lately, to have a Yankee skipper sort of a cross between a prize fighter and a murderer. Fust day out of port he begins by pickin' out the most sickly fo'mast hand aboard, mashes him up, and then takes the next invalid.
"No, I don't know, of course. But I I feel I " "You feel that that part of the situation ain't what you'd call hopeless, eh? . . . Um. . . . Well, judgin' from what I've heard, I shouldn't call it that, either. Would it surprise you to know, Charlie, that her dad and I had a little talk on this very subject not so very long ago?" Evidently it did surprise him. Charles gasped and turned red.
Sez the woman, "They're men dressed up as wild beasts." Sez I, "Have they got to stay here always? Do you spoze it is wrong doin' that has changed 'em into wild animals?" Sez I, "Judgin' from the papers some on 'em wouldn't need much of a turn." But oh, I groaned to myself, "Is Josiah Allen turned into a bear or a cammy leapord! Is he here?
But I guess most of 'em must have tumbled down in hysterics, judgin' from the screechin', and I got up to the cab and away we went. Well, when we got to the house where I was to meet the gent, he began straight off to blow at me.
I played every number on that wheel except the thirteen judgin' it to be onlucky." The forlorn one grinned his understanding, and clutching the piece of silver, elbowed into the group that crowded the roulette wheel.
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