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I'm sayin' five THOUSAND; do you understand?" "I understand. I'm not surprised. Living as we do, and moving in the in the best society as we have, the expense is large, naturally. You must expect that." "Expect! Gertie Baker Dott, STOP talkin' that way! Our income, not countin' what the store at Trumet is fetchin' in, ain't over six thousand at the outside. Six thousand a YEAR, that is.
The Jilkins an' Sperrits was a little disapp'inted 'cause they was n't comin' in to church, countin' on stayin' home an' readin' the paper all day instead, but Elijah's goin' to put in a late column of late news an' give 'em their money's worth that way. Mr.
"To leave Mademoiselle and leave the ship?" he said huskily, "is it not?" "In course. Yer can leave things yer just ez you found 'em when you came, you know," continued Nott, for the first time looking around the miserable apartment. "It's a business job. I'll take the bales back ag'in, and you kin reckon up what you're out, countin' Rosey and loss o' time."
But Zack saw in his gravity only a closer attention to the important subject of gain. 'I've shares in a big bank in New York, that returns me fifteen per cent. every copper of it: an' I've two of the best farms in the township that's countin' Daisy Burn, whar I'll foreclose some day soon, I guess. 'You are a prosperous man, as you calculate prosperity, Mr. Bunting.
Th' war is still goin' on; an' ivry night, whin I'm countin' up the cash, I'm askin' mesilf will I annex Cubia or lave it to the Cubians? Will I take Porther Ricky or put it by? An' what shud I do with the Ph'lippeens? Oh, what shud I do with thim? I can't annex thim because I don't know where they ar-re. I can't let go iv thim because some wan else'll take thim if I do.
We've been kinder wropt up in fightin' sheep and sech and hain't noticed how dry it's gittin'; but that old feller has been sittin' on top of his hill watchin' the clouds, and smellin' of the wind, and measurin' the river, and countin' his cows until he's a weather sharp.
I've been needin' a new boat a good while." Andrew grunted. He glanced a little jealously at the Andrew Halloran. "Got the money?" he asked. "Well, not got it, so to speak," said Uncle William, "but I reckon I shall have it when the time comes." Andrew's face lightened a little. "What you countin' on?" he said. Uncle William considered. "There's the fish.
As he rose and pulled on his overalls he thought of the messenger. He knew that somewhere back on the northern trail the men of the Olla were pushing a herd of cattle slowly south, cattle from the T-Bar-T, the Blue, and . . . he suddenly recalled Harper's remark "And countin' the Concho stuff . . ." Pete thought of Jim Bailey and Andy White, and of pleasant days riding for the Concho.
Sure enough, there's a big hole in it. "'Didn't I give you a safety-pin to pin that money in your inside coat pocket? says Miss Goodloe. "'Yess'm, dat's right, he says. 'But I'se countin' de money one day an' a span ob mules broke loose an' stahts lickety-brindle fo' de bahn, an' aimin' to ketch de mules, I pokes de money in de pocket wid de hole. I ain' neber see dat no-'coun' money sence.
Finally I dragged it out of her that she was countin' how many words I'd said since I started to tell about Melissy Busteed and what she said about Luther Small's wife's aunt, the one that's so wheezed up with asthma and Doctor Parker don't seem to be able to do nothin' to help. 'So you was countin' my words, was you? says I. 'Well, that's good business, I must say!
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