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Updated: May 24, 2025
"I was settin' in the messhouse along in the afternoon of the day of the killin' smokin' an' thinkin', but most of the time just settin', I cal'late, when I heard Chavis an' Pickett talkin' low an' easy outside. They was a crack in the wall, an' I plastered one ear up ag'in it, an' took in all they was sayin'. First, they was talkin' about the bad feelin' between you an' Pickett.
He would have forgiven him, too, if I had asked him. He always does what I ask." "Yes, ye-es, I cal'late that's so. But, to be real honest now, Maud, would you have been satisfied to have it that way? Would you have felt that it was the honorable thing for Charlie to do? Isn't what he has done better? He's undertakin' the biggest and finest job a man can do in this world to-day, as I see it.
I fell in with a Britisher named Hammond, 'Ammond, he called it, and as he was on the same hunt that I was, we kept each other comp'ny. We done odd jobs now 'n' again, and slept in sailors' lodging houses when we had the price, and under bridges or on hemp bales when we hadn't. I was too proud to write home for money, and Hammond didn't have no home to write to, I cal'late.
"But there ARE soldiers here," she declared. "Mamma said there were, officer soldiers, you know." "I cal'late there ain't very many yet," explained her companion. "Only the few that's in charge, I guess likely. By and by there'll be enough, officers and men both, but now there's only carpenters and such." "But there are SOME officer ones " insisted Babbie.
"You'd better go right out to the barn this minute, Cap'n Lote," she said, "and I guess likely I'd better go with you." The captain already had his cap on his head. "No, Rachel," he said, "I don't need you. Cal'late I can take care of 'most anything that's liable to have happened. If he ain't put the bridle to bed in the stall and hung the mare up on the harness pegs I judge I can handle the job.
With dignity: "That should be sufficient." "Well," replied Eliphalet, with an abortive laugh, "that's funny, now. Womenkind get queer notions, which I cal'late we've got to respect and put up with all our lives eh?" Her anger flared at his leer and at his broad way of gratifying her whim. And she was more incensed than ever at his air of being at home it was nothing less.
Lute, always a sort of social barometer, noticed the change in the weather. "Everybody's talkin' about you, Ros," he declared. "They cal'late you're a pretty smart feller. They don't just understand what you're up to, but they think you're pretty smart." "No?" I commented, ironically. "Lute, you astonish me. Why am I smart?" "Well, they don't know exactly, but they cal'late you must be.
"What's that?" ejaculated Cap'n Ira. "He wouldn't agree to come and live here, I reckon. What would become of his Aunt 'Cretia? I don't guess there's any fear of her getting married, is there?" "No, no! Don't be funnin'! But Ida May said just that in so many words." "She's mad with him, do you cal'late? They had a tiff!" cried her husband.
"'Humph! says I. 'Then I cal'late we'll enjoy the scenery on this garden spot of creation until the week's up. "'What do you mean? says he. "'Well, I says, 'the launch is out of commission, unless it should rain gasoline, and at this time of year there ain't likely to be a boat within hailin' distance of this island; 'specially if the weather holds bad.
Still Polena's got sense. She'll hold Hardee in check, I cal'late. I wouldn't wonder if it ended by her bossin' things and the Major actin' as a sort of pet poodle dog nice and pretty to walk out with, but always kept at the end of a string." "You didn't go to Higgins's for dinner to-day, did you?" "No. Nor I shan't go for supper.
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