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"What will you give me, sir?" "What, money down? And you got nothing to sell but chances. Why, there's an old cuss about that knows where the island is as well as you do." "Then of course you will treat with him," said Robert, sadly. "Darned if I do," said the Yankee. "You are in trouble, and he is not, nor never will be till he dies, and then he'll get it hot, I calc'late.
Then he laughed outright. "I calc'late, miss," said he, "ef you ride on that thar' load o' hay again to-day it'll be because them two's rendered incompetent o' action! An' they don't look to me much 'sif paralysis would set in yit awhile!" "Oh, dear who's this coming? just as we've settled down to accomplish something!" "It's the Chases. Girls we simply can't stop work to entertain them!"
"Wouldn't 'a' set you down for a day more 'n fifty-five or six, not with them clear eyes and them ruddy cheeks and the way you step out." "Calc'late to be nigh as good as I ever was, Scattergood. J'ints creak some, but what I got inside my head it don't never creak none to speak of." "What I want to ask you, Mr.
"The Injuns are beginning to know it's wuth something," he pointed out. "They don't know yet how much, but they know it will buy beads and buttons and paint and whiskey and everything else an Injun wants. And they know that's what we're yere for; and that we must have a lot of it. I don't calc'late that lot we licked will bother us ag'in; but they'll spread the news we're yere.
"I calc'late," he said to himself, "that this here dicker'll keep Crane and Keith gropin' and wonderin' and scrutinizin' more or less when it gits to their ears. Shouldn't be s'prised if it come to worry 'em a mite." So, having created a diversion to conceal the movements of his main attack, Scattergood got out his maps and began scientifically to plan his fall and winter campaign.
Arizona turned a doubtful eye on the speaker, and quietly spat over his horse's shoulder. "Guess your langwidge ain't mine," he said thoughtfully; "but if you're meanin' you're goin' to git your belly full, I calc'late you're li'ble to git like a crop-bound rooster wi' the moult 'fore you're through. An' I sez, why?" Tresler shrugged. "Why does a man do anything?" he asked indifferently.
"I kin think of sixty-nine things it might be," said Scattergood, "but I got a feelin' it hain't none of 'em." "We shouldn't of come away on this vacation," said Mandy. "Johnnie Bones is too young a boy to leave in charge." "Johnnie Bones is a dum good lawyer, Mandy, and a dum far-seein' young man. I don't calc'late Johnnie's done us no harm. Hain't no hurry, Mandy.
"I'll write it on the town paper, an' comin' from the postmaster there won't be no doubt in her mind that it's any of them bunco games or the lurin' of young women away such as I've read about, for I reckon perhaps she ain't never heerd of him before never knew him to write a letter, an' I calc'late to see most everything that goes out." Mr.
Two slices of home-made bread, I calc'late, don't cost more than three-fifths of a cent, I shouldn't think, and cream cheese to smear on them about half a cent; there's a little over a cent; and overhead 'course you wouldn't take overhead into account, and then you go and say I ain't practical and hatching chickens, and all, but let me tell you, Sarah Jane Appleby, I'm a business man and I've been trained, and I tell you as Pilkings has often said to me, it's overhead that makes or breaks a business, that's what it is, just like he says, yes, sir, overhead!
Jim glanced at the old man, and, noting the stubborn set of his jaw, said nothing; but Lou spoke again, and her voice held no note of alarm, but rather indignation at the obvious lack of fair play. "But they got a right; you're on their side of the road," she exclaimed. "If you'd give them their half, mister, they could pass easy." "Don't calc'late to let 'em," he responded obstinately.
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