As you read the passage, highlight words and phrases that reveal whether the text is realist, regionalist, or both.

here was something fresh — this thing of getting up in the middle of the night to go to work. it was a detail in piloting that had never occurred to me at all. i knew that boats ran all night, but somehow i had never happened to reflect that somebody had to get up out of a warm bed to run them. i began to fear that piloting was not quite so romantic as i had imagined it was; there was something very real and work-like about this new phase of it. …

mr. bixby made for the shore and soon was scraping it, just the same as if it had been daylight. and not only that, but singing —