cal'c'late

Updated: May 16, 2025

"Now, little 'un, it's this away in shootin' a weepon like this it's the aim that counts most. But with my Colts now the self-actin' ones you've got to cal'c'late chiefly on another thing a kinder thing that ain't in the books the instinct that makes the han' an' the eye act together an' 'lowin', at the same time, for the leverage on the trigger." The lad's face glowed with excitement.

John Trotwood Moore - The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills