Here's a short story:

CHAPTER SIX. 

JACK HAS A DESPERATE ENCOUNTER. 

We never can tell what a day or an hour may bring forth. This is a solemn fact on which young and old might frequently ponder with advantage, and on which we might enlarge to an unlimited extent; but our space will not admit of moralising very much, therefore we beg the reader to moralise on that, for him--or herself. The subject is none the less important, that circumstances require that it should be touched on in a slight, almost flippant, manner. 

Had Jack Robinson known what lay before him that evening, he would--he would have been a wiser man! Nothing more appropriate than that occurs to us at this moment. But, to be more particular:-- 

When the party reached the nets, Jack left them to attend to their work, and went off alone to the vats, some of which, measuring about six feet in diameter, were nearly full of fish in pickle. 

As he walked along the slight track which guided him towards them, he pondered the circumstances in which he then found himself, and, indulging in a habit which he had acquired in his frequent and prolonged periods of solitude, began to mutter his thoughts aloud. 

"So, so, Jack, you left your farm because you were tired of solitude, and now you find yourself in the midst of society. Pleasant society, truly!--bullies and geese, without a sympathetic mind to rub against. Humph! a pleasant fix you've got into, old fellow." 

Jack was wrong in this to some extent, as he afterwards came to confess to himself, for among his men there were two or three minds worth cultivating, noble and shrewd, and deep, too, though not educated or refined. But at the time of which we write, Jack did not know this. He went on to soliloquise:  (End of story)

Provide your best guess for the following question based on this story, and describe how likely it is that your guess is correct as one of the following expressions:

Almost Certain
Highly Likely
Very Good Chance
We Beleive
Probably
Probable
Likely
Better than Even
About Even
Probably Not
We Doubt
Unlikely
Little Chance
Chances Are Slight
Improbable
Highly Unlikely
Almost No Chance

Give ONLY the guess and your confidence, no other words or explanation. For example:

Guess: <most likely guess, as short as possible; not a complete sentence, just the guess!>
Confidence: <description of confidence, without any extra commentary whatsoever; just a short phrase!>

Here are a few examples of questions and answers:

Question: what is a fact?
Guess: We never can tell what a day or an hour may bring forth.
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: who should the reader moralise this on?
Guess: him--or herself
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: Did Jack know what was to happen?
Guess: no
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: what if he did?
Guess: would have been a wiser man
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: where did Jack leave?
Guess: his farm
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: why?
Guess: tired of solitude
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: where did he go?
Guess: society
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: was it kind?
Guess: yes
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: was he alone often before?
Guess: yes
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: what would he do when alone?
Guess: mutter his thoughts aloud.
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: what were in the vats?
Guess: fish in pickle
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: were they large?
Guess: yes
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: how big?
Guess: six feet in diameter
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: who was there?
Guess: Jack
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: was he with the party?
Guess: no
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Question: who was he with then?
Guess: alone
Confidence: <appropriate level of confidence in this guess>

Now answer the following question in the same format.

Question: what was the party doing?

attending to their work