If I was you--" Mr.Winslow interrupted.

"Sam," he said, "the way to find out what you would do if you was me is to make sure WHAT you'd do--and then do t'other thing, or somethin' worse." "Oh, Jed, be reasonable." Jed looked over his spectacles.

"Sam," he drawled, "if I was reasonable I wouldn't be me." And he lived no longer in the old house.

Having made up his mind, he built a small two-room addition to his workshop and lived in that.

Later he added a sleeping room--a sort of loft--and a little covered porch on the side toward the sea.