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After I'd bought a few bags of feed though, I quit figurin'. I knew that no matter how they was cooked they'd taste of money. All I was doubtful of now was whether they was the right breed of turkeys. "What's all that red flannel stuff on their necks?" I asks Joe. "Ain't got sore throats, have they!" "Heem?" says Joe. "No, no. Dey gooda turk. All time data way."
I sort of got to figurin' over him about then sort of begun to wonder, even before I hunted up a deck of cards. "Oh, you can smile if you want to, but you'll have to admit, just the same, that it's helped you stay sane once or twice yourself, figurin' whether or not I had an ace in the hole.
The little man climbed down from the fence and moved close to him, talking earnestly, and at last Sanderson grinned down at him. "I'm doing it," he said. "I'll stay. I reckon I was figurin' on it all the time." Barney Owen had told Sanderson of his hatred for Alva Dale, but he had not told Sanderson many other things.
The boys was lookin' for to see me get piled, always figurin' a pet hoss was worse to break than a bronc. She did some fussin', but she never bucked never pitched a move. Thinks I, I sure got a winner. Next day she was gone. Never seen her after that. Trailed all over the range, but she sure vamoosed. And nobody never seen her after that. She sure made a dent in my feelin's."
So until I got on the deal Jim's pard was already in the gang, without Poggin or you ever seein' him. Then I got to figurin' hard. Just where had I ever seen that chap? As it turned out, I never had seen him, which accounts for my bein' doubtful. I'd never forget any man I'd seen. I dug up a lot of old papers from my kit an' went over them. Letters, pictures, clippin's, an' all that.
I've read about it, but it was a long while ago. Mr. Bangs, I'm dreadfully ignorant, I realize it about once every ten minutes when I'm with you. Perhaps I've got a little excuse this time. I've been figurin' I must buy new curtains for the dinin' room. I was thinkin' about it all this forenoon. And when YOU began to talk about shades and sticks, I Mercy me! I am funny, I declare!"
And so the Crows are fixin' up things to be ready for the defence, I conclude?" "Not exactly that," Kiddie corrected. "They're goin' ter strike the first blow by makin' a surprise attack on the Sioux. They're not figurin' to wait until Broken Feather makes the assault."
"Ain't you figurin' ter take it on, then this boss chieftainship that they've offered you?" "Not I," said Kiddie, very decisively. "Made up your mind against it?" "Yes. I'd made up my mind before Short Nose began to speak. I'd guessed what was coming." "Um!" murmured Rube. "Dunno whether t' be glad or sorry. Why didn't you tell 'em, Kiddie?"
"'Luck hell, says he he used the word, I didn't 'I talked to that dried-up old mummy, says he, 'fer an hour jest to find that he was settin' thar all the time figurin' in his head about a speculation I'd made 'im think of while I was talkin' to him.
"Boss's orders is to take her without makin' any noise," said Shoop. "Huh! I'm plumb disappointed," asserted Mebby-So. "I was figurin' on singin' hymns and accompanyin' meself on me me cayuse. Listen! Somethin' 's broke loose!" Thundering like an avalanche the herd swept down on the water-hole, ploughing through a band of sheep that were bedded down between them and the ranch.
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