Eh?
That's what he'd naturally do, ain't it ?" His friend nodded once more.

Captain Sam lost patience.
"Gracious king!" he exclaimed.

"Jed Winslow, for thunder sakes say somethin'! Don't set there bobbin' your head up and down like one of those wound-up images in a Christmas-time store window.

I ask you if that ain't what Phin Babbitt would do?
What would you do if you was in his shoes ?" Jed rubbed his chin.
"Step out of 'em, I guess likely," he drawled.
"Humph! Yes--well, any self-respectin' person would do that, even if he had to go barefooted the rest of his life.

But, what I'm gettin' at is this: Babbitt'll come to me orderin' me to get Leander exempted.