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DEAR BOY: I reckon that this letter will find you just returned from Dresden, where you have made your first court caravanne.
"Does ye love hit better'n ye do me, Samson?" she demanded. He hesitated. "I reckon ye knows how much I loves ye, Sally," he said, slowly, "but I've done made a promise, an' thet gun's a-goin' ter keep hit fer me." They went together out to the stile, he still carrying his rifle, as though loath to let it go, and she crossed with him to the road.
"He certainly drops a little of his money at draw poker, Zeenie," said Clinch, laughing. "He lost five thousand dollars to Sheriff Kelly last week." "Well, I don't hear of the sheriff huntin' him to give it back, nor do I reckon Kelly handed it over to the Express it was taken from. I heard YOU won suthin' from him a spell ago.
Sixteen was right young to be buttin' into business matters, but some folks is born older than others, and I reckon you've got right much of your pa in you. And that's what I told McDougal I like about you. You knew what you wanted, and when you made up your mind to do a thing, 'twould be death or you would win.
As we didn't recollect just how much grub we had at the start, or how much water there was in the pool first off, we couldn't for the life of us reckon just how long we'd been there.
"Hark! how the boughs of the trees are sawing and cracking against each other." "I reckon we may get our snow-shoes out of the store-house, John," said Martin, "and then we shall see how you can get over the ground with them when you go out hunting. You have not shot a moose yet." "Is the moose the same as the elk, Martin?" said Henry.
"I reckon we parts company hyar," he said, "but I feels like we've done accomplished a right good day's work. Termorrow Hump an' me'll fare over ter yore house and git yore answer." "I'm obleeged," responded the new chief of the Thorntons, but when he was left alone he did not ride on to the house in the river bend.
And she would smile at him bravely and say, "I reckon I kin look out for Davy awhile yet." But when he was gone, and the crooning stillness set in broken only by the many sounds of the night, we would sit huddled together by the fire. It was dread for him she felt, not for herself. And in both our minds rose red images of hideous foes skulking behind his brave form as he trod the forest floor.
"Look here," he demanded of the Carrolls, "why all this interest about our being in the Basin? Every man-jack asks me. What's the point?" Old man Carroll stroked his long beard. "Do they so?" he drawled comfortably. "Well, I reckon little things make news, as they say, when you're in a wild country.
"Come here." He walked back to where the farmer was standing fingering the pass and the letter. "I I reckon you needn't stick them bills on the hog pen." The Circus Boy's heart took a sudden drop. "Very well, sir; just as you say. I do not wish to do anything to displease you."
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