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"It's not much use unless you're a classic," the boy said. "And I'm a mathematician." Besides he had his own clear-cut views of what he wished to do. And those views were very strange. He wanted to go into a Bank. "Bank!" cried the amazed father. "Set at a counter all day and calcalate sums?" The boy grinned behind his spectacles in his foolish way. "That's about it," he said.
The answer was so gruff and short, and the fellow hesitated so long in adding anything to it, I began to think it was all off. "Wal," he consented to say at last, ungraciously, "thar 's a blame pile o' ye kim in lately, an' I calcalate we got 'bout 'nough fer our business, but I reckon as how Red will use ye somewhar.
The first time he cam' sparkin', he tauld me he wes jist fufty-sax, an' then ah catchet him up aboot hoo auld he wes the time he cam' to these pairts, an' anither time ah got it oot o' him hoo lang yon wes afore the railroad wes pit in to Cheemaun, an' a rin it up in ma mind, an' ah calcalate he was saxty-siven.
"You are thinking about some terrible piece you've acted in, and your imagination is carrying away your judgment." "I hope as 'ow 'tis, sur; but I don't think so. If you chop me up, sur, you'll not find sixpenno'th of imagination in my carcase, but I calcalate I'm purty 'eavy wi' judgment. Never mind, sur; Simon Slowden is in the 'ouse, if you should want help, sur."
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