A man could never cheat or defy him openly without collecting a little war that left him surprised at the jobber's belligerency.

The doubtful cases, those on the subtle line of indecision, found him weak.

He could be so easily persuaded that he was in the wrong.

At times it even seemed that he was anxious to be proved at fault, so eager was he to catch fairly the justice of the other man's attitude.

He held his men inexorably and firmly to their work on the indisputably comfortable days; but gave in often when an able-bodied woodsman should have seen in the weather no inconvenience, even.