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If I had independent means same as you've got I tell you I'd have more sense. One sick invalid in the family's enough, ain't it?" "No doubt, Lute," I replied. "At all events you must take care of your health. Don't YOU work yourself sick." Lute turned on me. "I try not to," he said, seriously; "I try not to, but it's a hard job. You know what that wife of mine is cal'latin' to have me do next?
I was settin' talkin' with Alvin Baker and eatin' my second sasser of berries, when " "SECOND sasser?" interrupted Dorinda, sharply. "Where'd you get money for two sassers? I gave you thirty cents when you started for that festival. It cost you fifteen to get inside the gate, and Matildy Dean told me the church folks was cal'latin' to charge fifteen for a helpin' of berries and cream.
The request was granted. Then Kenelm announced that he and Hannah were cal'latin' to go. Thankful was somewhat reluctant; she felt that to be deprived of the services of both her hired man and maid on the same day might be troublesome. But as the Parker announcement was more in the nature of an ultimatum than a request, she said yes under protest.
Explanations followed. "What ARE you cal'latin' to do, then?" demanded Kenelm, moodily. "Me? Stay here on my job, of course. That's what you're goin' to do, too, ain't it?" Mr. Parker thrust his hands into his pockets. "No, by time, I ain't!" he declared, fiercely. "I ain't got any job no more. I've quit, I have." "Quit! You mean you ain't goin' to work for Mrs. Thankful?"
"Although I do not consider that I am, in any sense, duty bound to refer matters, other than financial, to you; and, although my feelings toward you have not changed still, you are my guardian, and and " "I understand. So you're really engaged?" "Yes." "Engaged to Mr. Dunn?" "Yes." "And you're cal'latin' to marry him?" "One might almost take that for granted," impatiently. "Almost yes.
Me when I was five, comin' out of the buttery with a cooky in each fist; and me when I was ten sittin' studyin' my lesson book in the corner; and me when I was fifteen, just afore Father died, sittin' all alone thinkin' what I'd do when I went to Boston Tech same as he said he was cal'latin' to send me. Then " He paused and lapsed into one of his fits of musing. His friend drew a breath of relief.
As he put Louise and her baggage into the vehicle he had asked: "Who you cal'latin' to stop with, miss?" "I am going to Mr. Abram Silt's," Louise had told him. "Oh! Cap'n Abe. Down on the Shell Road. I can't take ye that fur ain't allowed to drive beyond the tavern. But 'tain't noways a fur walk from there." He expressed no curiosity about her, or her business with the Shell Road storekeeper.
The old idiot was cal'latin' to FLY. Seems that for years he'd been experimentin' with what he called 'aeroplanes, and now he'd reached the stage where he b'lieved he could flap his wings and soar. 'Thinks I, says Nate, 'your life work's cut out for you, Nate Scudder.
He will be here this afternoon, you know." It was evident that Jeremiah was quite aware of the time of Sam Keith's arrival. His teeth the few remaining snapped together and, as Captain Shadrach said afterwards, he looked as if undecided whether to bite or put back his head and howl. Apparently he decided that howling was safer. "I was cal'latin' to pay that bill of yours, anyhow," he said.
"I say," he said, in a low tone and one as casual as he could assume, "I am going to run out for a few minutes. I'll be right back." Issachar's response was as usual anything but low. "Eh?" he shouted. "Goin' out? Where you goin'?" "Oh, I'm just going out er on an errand." "What kind of an errand? I was cal'latin' to run out myself for a little spell. Can't I do your errand for you?"
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