Blood Meridian

Chapter X

Some nights later, Tobin and the kid are sitting together around a campfire, the kid rather efficiently mending a strap. The two begin talking about the Judge, whom Tobin says is very gifted. The Judge even speaks, rather improbably, Dutch, which he claims to have learned from a Dutchman. Tobin spits and says he couldn’t have learned the language from ten Dutchmen; he concludes that God’s gifts are allocated very unequally. He goes on to say that the Judge is an excellent dancer and fiddler, and that he’s traveled the world.