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"Course I do, but circuses cost money. I hain't got more 'n a quarter to my name." "H'm!... Didn't calc'late I was askin' you to take a day of your time for nothin', did you? F'r a trip like this here, with a lot hangin' on to it, I'd say ten dollars was about the fittin' pay. What say?" Mr. Spackles's beaming face was answer enough. Grandmother Penny and Mr.
Fresh goods. Low prices. Eh? Calc'late some of you fellers would have to discharge a clerk." "You hain't got money enough to start a store," Old Man Penny squawked. "Why, you hain't even got a satchel! You come walkin' in like a tramp." "There's tramps and tramps," said Scattergood, placidly.
Thar's plenty o' his tribe not twenty miles from hyar, I calc'late." "Look down among the willows there!" cried the voice of the chief; "close down to the water." There was a pool. It was turbid and trampled around the edges with buffalo tracks. On one side it was deep. Here willows dropped over and hung into the water.
"Recall that show Bogle was took to in Boston?" "Where the wimmin wore tights that's been on his mind ever since? Calc'late I do. Kind of a high spot in Bogle's life. Come nigh bein' the makin' of him." "He claims he recognizes this here gal as one of them dancin' wimmin that stood in a row with less on to them than any woman ever ought to have with the lights turned on."
It would have been as easy to make away with twenty thousand dollars as with three thousand, and the penalty would not have been greater. "Kind of a childish sum," said Scattergood to himself. "'Tain't wuth bustin' up a life over not three thousand.... Calc'late Ovid hain't bad not at a figger of three thousand. Jest a dum fool him and his tailor-made clothes...."
Linderman scrutinized Scattergood intently and nodded his head. "And you want me " "Put up the money. Git the stock. Lemme handle it. Gimme twenty per cent." "In stock?" "Calc'late so." "Baines," said Linderman, "I'll go you. Crane and Keith are due for a lesson." "Ready now?" "Yes." "G'-by, Mr. Linderman. Have money when I want it. G'-by."
"And where," asked Applehead with heavy irony, while he pulled at his mustache, "do yuh calc'late we'll git t'gether agin if we go scatterin' out?" Luck looked at him and smiled his smile. "We aren't any of us tenderfeet, exactly," he said calmly. "We'll meet at the jail when we bring in our men, if we don't meet anywhere else this side.
"I'll put the bell on Johnny, and if Pink'll bobble that buckskin that's allus wantin' to wander off by hisself, I calc'late we kin settle down an' rest our bones quite awhile b'fore anybody needs to go on guard. Them ponies ain't goin' to stray fur off if they don't have to, after the groun' they covered t'day now I'm tellin' yuh! They'll save their steps."
Spackles," said Scattergood, "is if you calc'late a man that's got to be past sixty and a woman that's got to be past sixty has got any business hitchin' up and marryin' each other." "Um!... Depends. I'd say it depends. If the feller was perserved like I be, and the woman was his equal in mind and body, I'd say they was no reason ag'in' it 'ceptin' it might be money."
A few bushes and a stunted tree or two marked the spring that seeped down and fed a shallow water-hole where the horses drank thirstily. Applehead grinned and pointed to the now familiar hoofprints which they had followed so far. "I calc'late Ramon done a heap uh millin' around back there in that rocky arroyo," he observed, "'fore he struck off over here.
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