Read the excerpt below and answer the question. Then they tucked the old man into a beautiful room, which was the spare room, and in the night some time he got powerful thirsty and clumb out on to the porch-roof and slid down a stanchion and traded his new coat for a jug of forty-rod, and clumb back again and had a good old time; and towards daylight he crawled out again, drunk as a fiddler, and rolled off the porch and broke his left arm in two places, and was most froze to death when somebody found him after sun-up The judge he felt kind of sore. He said he reckoned a body could reform the old man with a shotgun, maybe, but he didn't know no other way.

What is the judge's opinion of Huck's father?

A. He is thoroughly bad and cannot be reformed.
B. He should be trusted by Huck because he is his father.
C. He is prone to displaying unpredictable behavior.
D. He has spiritual gifts that most people cannot understand.