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'Tain't all her fault, and 'tain't all my fault. The whole sum and substance of it is that we can't git along with each other no more." "So you calc'late to separate?" "Been talkin' it up some." "Marthy willin'?" "Hain't neither of us willin'. We fix it up and agree to try over ag'in, and then, fust thing we know, we're right into the middle of another squabble.
"Um!... Ever git a notion what young Mavin up and stole that money fer?" "Inborn cussedness, I calc'late." "Allus seemed to me like Ol' Man Newton might 'a' made restitution of that there money," said Scattergood, tentatively. "H'm!" Marvin cleared his throat and glanced up the street. "Seein's how it's you, I dunno but what I kin tell you suthin' you hain't heard, nor nobody else.
"Now, you see, Tresler," he said huskily, for his voice was tired with sustained effort. "You're the remarkablest smart 'tenderfoot' that ever I see. Say, you're a right smart daddy an' I ain't given to latherin' soap-suds neither. But ther's suthin's I calc'late that no 'tenderfoot, smart as he may be, is goin' to locate right.
"So am I. Ef you ain't in a hurry, le'ss walk along together." "All right, sir," answered Ben. "I think I know what's comin," he said to himself. "You're stayin' at your Uncle Job's, ain't you?" asked Deacon Pitkin. "Yes, sir." "You don't calc'late to keep on there, do you?" "No, sir; he would like to have me stay and work in the shop, but I don't fancy shoemaking." "Jest so.
I also figger," he added, wriggling his bare toes, "that a feller ought to pick one that could lend a dollar to your brother in case he needed one." "Hain't none sich to be found," said Sam. "I calc'late to look," Scattergood replied. He had already done his looking. The lady of his choice, tradition says, was older than he, but this is a base libel. She was not older.
Well, I calc'late that fer a josh, them thar Navvies has got a right keen sense uh humor, and I've knowed men to laff theirselves to death on their danged resavation now I'm tellin' yuh I It was all a josh mebby, when they riz up a year or two back 'cause one uh their tribe was goin' t' be arrested er some darn thing!
"How much kin sich a couple as I been talkin' about live on?" "When I married, forty-odd year ago, I was gittin' a dollar a day. Me 'n' Ma we done fine and saved money. Livin's higher now. Calc'late it 'u'd take nigh a dollar 'n' a half to git on comfortable." "Figger fifty dollars a month 'u'd do it? Think that 'u'd be enough?" "Scattergood, you listen here to me.
There was such an utter absence of refinement about the man, that Paul, who had been accustomed to the gentle manners of his father, was repelled by the contrast which this man exhibited. "To be sure you're to go with me," said Mr. Mudge. "You did not calc'late you was a goin' to stay here by yourself, did you? We've got a better place for you than that.
"Calc'late you been robbin' a train or somethin'," said Scattergood, mildly. "Now don't git het up. 'Tain't none of my business. Doin' robbin' for a reg'lar livin'?" he asked, innocently. "Hain't never done none before " began one of the men, but his companion directed him to "shut up and stay shut." "No harm talkin' 's I kin see. We got these fellers here and here they stay till we git clean off.
"And you calc'late to keep on waitin' fer him to come?" "Until I'm dead and after that, if it's allowed." "I wisht," said Scattergood, "there was suthin' I could do to mend it all." "Nobody kin ever do anythin'," she said.... "But if he should venture back, calc'latin' it had all blown over and been forgot!... His father'd see him put in prison and I I couldn't bear that, it seems as though."
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