I exclaimed that I knew little about regattas and cablack less, that a dayspent in watching and listening to the birds gave me more pleasure thanall the regattas in the country. "I suppose you can't understand that?"I added.

He took the huge green bundle from his head and set it down, pulled offhis very aged hat to flap the dust out of it, then sucked at his short clay."Well," he exclaimed at length, "some fancies one thing and some another, butwe most of us like a regatta."