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"And after we've done that we must kalkilate what Rosey is, and what Rosey wants. P'r'aps, ye allow, you know what Rosey is? P'r'aps you've seen her prance round in velvet bonnets and white satin slippers, and sich. P'r'aps you've seen her readin' tracks and v'yages, without waitin' to spell a word, or catch her breath. But that ain't the Rosey ez I knows.
Ef this yer" she again pointed contemptuously to the objects just indicated "means that you've cast your lot with US and kalkilate to take our bitter with our sweet, ye'll lift up that stack of hay and bring out a gun to help defend it. Ef you're meanin' anythin' else, Ford, you'll hide yourself in that hay till Hiram comes and has time enough to attend to ye."
"But is he SURE to come?" asked Mrs. Rylands anxiously. "Mr. Rylands will be so put out without his pepper-sauce." "He's sure to come ef he knows you're here. Ye kin always kalkilate on that." "Why?" said Mrs. Rylands abstractedly. "Why? 'cause he just can't keep his eyes off ye! That's why he comes every day, 'tain't jest for trade!"
Jonas is dead." "What was the matter?" "Chickens." "What overeating?" "No, somebody stole his chickens. So he arranged a gun with a spring and he must have forgotten it." "He didn't 'kalkilate' on its hitting him?" "Guess not. Mrs. Hawkins says she's too old to marry agin, and she can't run the house without a man she can trust." "Let's stop and see her." When they entered, Mrs.
As he gazed at his wife's troubled face, an apologetic cloud came over his rugged but open brow, and a smile of awkward deprecating embarrassment suffused his eyes. "I declare to goodness, Mollie, but I must tell you suthin, although I guess I didn't kalkilate to say a word about it. But, darn it all, I can't keep it in. No!
"'Skuse me, gentlemen, but them horses don't take no pasear down the mountain to-night. The stage-road ain't a mile off, and I kalkilate to wait here till the up stage comes. She's bound to stop on account of the snow; and I've done my dooty when I hand the horses over to the driver." "But if she hears of the block up yer, and waits at the lower station?" said Rawlins.
"Ez I was sayin'," continued Nott, once more pressing the excited man down in his chair, "I might hev wiped ye out and mebbee ye wouldn't hev keered or YOU might hev wiped ME out, and I mout hev said, 'Thank'ee, but I reckon this ain't a case for what's comf'able for you and me. It's what's good for ROSEY. And the thing to kalkilate is, what's to be done."
"I have a lady with me, and am pressed for time," said Van Loo quickly. "He knows it, otherwise he would not have dared" "Well, look here," said Steptoe roughly. "I ain't particularly sweet on you, as you know; but I and these gentlemen," he added, glancing around the room, "ain't particularly sweet on Mr. Jack Hamlin neither, and we kalkilate to stand by you if you say so.
No, sir; when my gal Araminty first seed your boy in Californy she was poor, and she didn't kalkilate to get inter anybody's family unbeknownst or on sufferance.
I didn't, of course, kalkilate on this," he added, pointing dejectedly to the ruins.
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