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"Waal, I reckon they will be somethin' doin', and mighty soon, too. We're goin' to beat it for the bunkhouse some soon, and you'd better come along with us. Chances are you won't have time to make the ranchhouse.
Tim grinned at me, but did not appear particularly flattered at his reception. "Not quite so fast, yung lady," he said, stuttering a bit and holding the pipe in his hand. "I reckon I wus thar all right, just as ye say, an' thet I did yer a mighty mean turn, but I ain't such a dern ornary cuss as ye think am I, Cap?" "No, you are not," I hastened to explain.
That out-thrust of rock hides whatever lies at the bottom," Walter agreed, likewise peering down. "Say! couldn't your outlaw horse have tumbled down that place?" "Criminy! do you reckon so?" asked Tom. "He might! Looks probable, don't it?" He slid out of his saddle and seized a big chunk of rock all he could lift. He started this sliding down the gravelly bank.
One time that night, while sitting on the ground, in the cold and dark, tired, hungry, and sleepy, waiting while our engineers patched a break in the railroad, Bill, with a view, I reckon, to cheering us both up, delivered himself in this wise: "This is a little tough, Stillwell, but just think of that bully dinner we'll have when we get to Murfreesboro!
Balfour had been left to carry it out Ireland would have come her nearest possible to prosperity and contentment. But with steady rule one day, and vacillation, wobbling, and surrender the next, what can you expect? The Irish are very smart, cute people, and they soon know where they can take advantage of weakness. The way these poor Achil folks, those who have been to England, can reckon up Mr.
"I reckon their bills will be so dull by morning, after drilling our tough hides all night, that we won't feel them at all," observed Polly. A low growl from Dippy Orell was the only reply to the remark.
'You forget the waste of time that, I think, we must reckon as part of the payment, said her mother. 'Really, Mr. Hamley, we must learn to shut our doors on you if you come so often, and at such early hours!
One of them is doubtless before this on his way to the next party with the news, while the other has set to work to find out where we turned off, which will be easy enough to discover. Still, we have gained something, and may fairly reckon that if we ride briskly there is no fear of those who were posted along the road we have left cutting us off."
They would know they could get up to the foot of that rock before being seen, and once among the bushes they would reckon they could make easy work of it." A quarter of an hour later there was the crack of a rifle, followed instantly by an Indian yell. "That is the chief's piece, Tom, and I reckon the lead has gone straight."
My first thought was, "Well, what an astonishing dream I've had! I reckon I've waked only just in time to keep from being hanged or drowned or burned or something.... I'll nap again till the whistle blows, and then I'll go down to the arms factory and have it out with Hercules."
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