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But he soon regained his wits an' evidently calculatin' that his only salvation layed in his overhaulin' us lit out at a saprisin' gait in a grand effort to leave us far enough behind for him to catch up to us. But it didn't work; for by that time we had all got our second wind an' he soon realized that we was determined not to be overhauled from the rear.
They are afeared to show their noses says another, lest they should be shaved off by our shots. They are all down below a "CALCULATIN" their loss I guess, says a third. I'll take my davy says the Captain, its some Yankee trick, a torpedo in her bottom or some such trap we'll let her be, and sure enough, next day, back she came to shore of herself.
It's reasonable calculatin' that you want to be glad you got the Briscoe brand on you, my son." That remarked clinched in Lonny's mind an unpleasant, vague suspicion to the same effect. His reticence increased, and he gathered grass from the ground, chewing it pensively. The picture as a picture had been humiliatingly absent from the Senator's arguments.
If," he added, turning to the Old Man, "if you want to stay, if you want to do Chinaman's work at Chinaman's wages, if you want to hang on to the charity of the traders at the Crossing, you can do it, and enjoy the prospects and the Noah's doves alone. But we're calculatin' to step out of it." "But I haven't said I wanted to do it alone" protested the Old Man with a gesture of bewilderment.
I've got an inquirin' mind, I have, and also a calculatin' one. When I saw your little troop comin', an' then that big troop of the Yankees comin' on behind, I knowed that you needed help. I knowed that this creek run down a gorge, and that I could lead you into the gorge and escape pursuit.
"We ain't tryin' to pry into none of your private affairs," he explained; "but my daughter saw you and that there feller a makin' up to each other. If you're calculatin' to run away with him, you'll save a heap of trouble for the parson by doin' it quick." "The parson!" "YOU can't blame the congregation for not wantin' him to keep you here. You got sense enough to see how it looks.
Sez I, "Josiah Allen, be you a calculatin' to go there right out in public before men and wimmen, a showin' your bare bosom to a crowd? Where is your modesty, Josiah Allen? Where is your decency?" Sez he firmly, "I keep 'em where all the rest do, who go in full dress." I sot right down in a chair and sez I, "Wall there is one thing certain; if you go in that condition, you will go alone.
Now, as a matter of Christian charity, how cheap could you afford to let him go, to oblige a young lady that's particular sot on him?" "Wal, now, just think on 't," said the trader; "just look at them limbs, broad-chested, strong as a horse. Look at his head; them high forrads allays shows calculatin niggers, that'll do any kind o' thing. I've, marked that ar.
Thet's the last we do for the damned cannibals. Didn't you see them eatin' of the raw innards? faugh! I'm calculatin' we'll see no more reindeer. It's late for the migration. The big herd has driven southward. But we're lucky, thanks to your prairie trainin'. Come on now with the sleds, or we'll have a pack of wolves to fight."
And when Willie was balked in an "idee" that had "kitched him," and left half-a-dozen strings and wires swinging in mid-air for weeks together, Celestina would patiently duck her head as she passed beneath them and offer no protest more emphatic than to remark: "Them strings hangin' down over the sink snare me every time I wash a dish. Ain't you calculatin' ever to take 'em down, Willie?"
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