Then all the unimportant questions are decided promptly." "Well," said Josey, "let us do so, Oliver.

I'll be director." "How do they decide who shall be director ?" said Oliver.
"The oldest and most experienced directs, generally; or, if one is the employer, and the others are employed by him, then the employer directs the others.

If a man wants a stone bridge built, and hires three men to do it, there is always an understanding, at the beginning, who shall have the direction of the work, and all the others obey.
"So," continued Jonas, "if a carpenter were to send two of his men into the woods to cut down a tree for timber, without saying which of them should have the direction,--then the oldest or most experienced, or the one who had been the longest in the carpenter's employ, would take the direction.

He would say, 'Let us go out this way,' and the other would assent; or, 'I think we had better take this tree,' and the other would say, perhaps, 'Here's one over here which looks rather straighter; won't you come and look at this ?' But they would not dispute about it.

One would leave it to the other to decide." "Suppose," said Josey, "one was just as old and experienced as the other." "Why, if there was no reason, whatever, why one should take the lead, rather than the other, then they would not either of them be tenacious of their opinion.