calc'lation

Updated: May 23, 2025

"I'll have to keep at it pretty studdy," he explained apologetically to his visitor, "fer they say we're like enough not to have any more rain, and I'm calc'latin' to grub out the vineyard before the ground hardens up." "Goin' to yank them vines all out, are ye?" "That's the calc'lation." Parker clasped one knee, and whetted his knife on the toe of his boot reflectively.

Margaret Collier Graham - Stories of the Foot-hills