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Updated: June 13, 2025
I, who had begun I am ashamed to tell you how many stories yes, and had finished them and seen them in print as well was stumped at the very beginning of this one. Like Sim Phinney I had worked at my job "a long spell" and "cal'lated" I knew it, but here was something I didn't know. As Sim said, when he faced his problem, "I couldn't seem to get steerage way on her."
He stood the no'theasters and Scotch drizzles till January, and then he heads for Key West and comfort. Said his heart still beat warm for his native village, but his feet was froze or words similar. He cal'lated to be back in the spring. Then the Reverend Fisher got a call to somewheres in York State, and felt he couldn't afford not to hear it.
Come up here a minute, won't ye?" Brown clambered up the path. A little man, with grey throat whiskers, and wearing an antiquated straw hat, the edge of the brim trimmed with black braid, was standing waiting for him. "Sorry to trouble you, Mr. Brown," stammered the little man, "but you be Mr. Brown, ain't you?" "I am. Yes." "Well, I cal'lated you was. My name's Stover, Abijah Stover.
She marched to the door and there, turning, looked at him in awe-stricken amazement. "And to think," she said, slowly, "that I always cal'lated you was meek and gentle and and all like that as Moses's grandmother. WELL, it just shows you can't tell much by a person's LOOKS. Haulin' 'em out of their graves and and unwrappin' 'em like like bundles, and cartin' 'em off to museums.
I realize puffickly that he entertained some feelin' at the time that that he wasn't exactly cal'lated to be foreman of an engine company. But that ain't sayin' that he won't receive like gentlemen the committee that comes to tell him that he has been elected to the highest office in this town. I ain't got any more time to waste on cowards.
"Wa'al," said David, "I kept the trade margined, of course, an' if we'd sold out at the bottom you'd have owed me somewhere along a thousan' or fifteen hunderd; but," he added, "it was only in the slump, an' didn't last long, an' anyway I cal'lated to carry that pork to where it would 'a' ketched fire. I wa'n't worried none, an' you didn't let on to be, an' so I didn't say anythin'."
They was stuck up right acrost the path: 'No trespassing on these premises, and 'All persons are forbidden crossing this property, under penalty of the law. But land! I'd used that short-cut ever sence I'd been in Bayport which was more'n a year and old man Davidson and me was good friends, so I cal'lated the signs was intended for boys, and hove ahead without paying much attention to 'em.
It was remarked by acquaintances of the couple that the difference in age became less and less apparent as their married life continued. "Humph!" observed Captain Zeb, summing up the situation, "he started about ten year astern, but he'll beat her on the run into the cemetery, now you mark my words. Annabel's temper's cal'lated to keep any average chap drivin' on that course, bows under.
And I really do think an awful lot of you." Mrs. Coffin stepped no farther in the direction of the kitchen. Instead, she strode toward the rickety chair and its occupant. Kyan grasped the pipe with both hands. "You poor miserable impudent " began the lady. "Why, Keziah, don't you WANT to?" He spoke as if the possibility of a refusal had never entered his mind. "I cal'lated you'd be glad.
"This lemonade's gittin' kind o' dusty," he complained, "I cal'lated to hev a kind of a spree on it when I got through choosin' Rose's weddin' present, but I guess the pig'll he v to help me out."
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