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"Kerrect," answered Webber, as gravely as possible, thinking of the hundred gaudy promises old Jim had made concerning his undeveloped and so far worthless claim. "I hope you'll strike it good and rich." "Wal," drawled Jim; "bad luck has to associate with a little good luck once in a while, to appear sort of half-way respectable.
"Our little boy has come 'round delightful." "Kerrect," said Bone. "But if us old cusses could see him sort of laughin' and crowin' it would do us heaps of good." "Give him time," said the teamster. "Some of the sickenest crowin' I ever heard was let out too soon." The carpenter said, "You jest leave him alone with these here blocks for a day or two, if you want to hear him laugh."
"I was a goose." "No, you were quite right. I was a tetchy fool. If I'd had any sense, I'd have felt thankful you thought enough of me to want to improve me, and I'd have tried to kerrect my mistakes instead of getting mad. It's too late now, I suppose." "Too late for what?" said Nancy, plucking up heart of grace at something in Peter's tone and look. "For kerrecting mistakes."
"I'll put him in the sack I've got, and tie him on behind the saddle when he gits too much of runnin' on foot. He wouldn't like it to be left behind and Skeezucks gone." "Guess that's kerrect," agreed the teamster. "He's a bully pup, you bet." Poor Miss Doc remained inside the gate.
"The full amount is eighteen dollars Kerrect L em m e see; you have et seven breakfasts here; at fifty cents apiece that is three dollars and a half. Then, l em m e see; you was late eleven times, and I've docked you twenty-five cents for each time; that makes two dollars and seventy-five cents."
I hesitated, and then climbed up the mizzen channels, which were level with the wharf. "Short handed?" I suggested, reaching the deck. "Naw, there's nobody but me an' the doctor in the after guard; we'll get a crew aboard early in the morning, though; skipper, too, if what they say is kerrect." "Where's the captain?" I asked.
"That varmint has been away somewhar," concluded Sut, carefully noting everything, "and they expect him to tell something worth hearin', and I guess they're about kerrect, so I'll see what I kin do in the way of listening myself." The scout was right in his supposition. The Indian was the avant courier of a party three or four times as great as that which had gathered about him in the ravine.
They were stumped for a moment. "Why you," said Keno. "Didn't you find little Skeezucks?" "Kerrect," said Bone. "Jim kin talk like a steam fire-engine squirtin' languages." "If only I had the application," said Jim, modestly, "I might git up somethin' passable. Where could we have it?" This was a stumper again. No building in the camp had ever been consecrated to the uses of religious worship.
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