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Fri 18 Dec, 2015 08:22 pm
The context:
'Ah, so's -- here you be! -- Ah, Michael and Joseph and John -- and you too, Leaf! a merry Christmas all! We shall have a rare log-wood fire directly, Reub, to reckon by the toughness of the Job I had in cleaving 'em.' As he spoke he threw down an armful of logs which fell in the chimney-corner with a rumble, and looked at them with something of the admiring enmity he would have bestowed on living people who had been very obstinate in holding their own. 'Come in, grandfather James.'
What does the phrase '... to reckon by...' mean in this context?
@dunelmnae,
Try substituting "to judge by" or "judging by."
@FBM,
Thank you so much again, FBM.
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