They did n't understand each other either; but it did n't matter much to them--it never does matter much to women whether they understand or not; anyway, they laughed most of the time and seemed to enjoy themselves greatly.

Outside Jacob and Joe mixed up in an argument.

Jacob shoved his face close to Joe's and gesticulated and talked German at the rate of two hundred words a minute.

Joe thought he understood him and said: "You want to fight ?" Jacob seemed to have a nightmare in German.
"Orright, then," Joe said, and knocked him down.
Jacob seemed to understand Australian better when he got up, for he ran inside, and Joe put his ear to a crack, but did n't hear him tell Mother.
Joe had an idea.

He would set the steel-trap on a wire-post and catch Jacob.