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"A guerrilla we shot down." "Ha! who shot him?" "I did. He was trying to steal our horses." "Dr. Mackey, don't you know me?" came from the guerrilla. "Pete Gendron!" muttered the surgeon. "I never expected to see you here." "Nor did I calkerlate to see you, doc. But I'm mighty glad yer come. Ye kin git me out o' this fix." As he spoke, the guerrilla eyed Dr. Mackey sharply.
And I don't spoze it wuz noticed much, for there wuzn't more'n ten or a dozen folks there when we went in. We went in in Injin file mostly by Cephas'ses request, so's to make more show. And as a procession we wuz middlin' long, but ruther thin. The sermon wuz not so very good as to quality, but abundant as to quantity. It wuz, as nigh as I could calkerlate, about a hour and three-quarters long.
"Wall, no; I didn't calkerlate on staying any longer'n I could turn the stones into money," the man said. "My old mother lives up to Brownsville, and I thought of goin' up to make her a little visit han't seen her fur ten years. Then I'm going back to the mines, since I han't no reason to hang around these parts now," with a bitter emphasis on the last word. "This is Tuesday," said Mr.
"Thet might not hold with the Mexican government," drawled the old frontiersman, "but I calkerlate 'twill hold with the government o' this free an' enlightened State o' Texas, hear me!" And at this the others had to laugh. The holidays came and went, and nothing of more than ordinary interest happened at the ranch.
Meredith and Miss Janice real handsome, and don't trouble them with no bills, but leave me to square it," he said to the landlord, who had come bustling in. "Lor, Joe, yer duz n't think I wuz goin' tew make no charge fer this? Why, the squire lent me the money ez started me, an' I calkerlate he kin stay on here jus' about ez long ez he elects tew." Then the publican laughed.
"Why, Colonel, although I count you as purty near ekal to 'most anything, an' them fellers behind ye seemed armed to deal with any foe, still I calkerlate you ain't expectin' ol' Champlain ter open for ye to pass over dry shod, hey?" Allen smote his thigh with his gauntleted hand and the expression on his face changed. "Right, 'Siah! I can't forgive myself for my thoughtlessness.
Oh, they'll lynch me; I feel it in my bones!" groaned the old man. "Who was it?" "Harry Smith of Oak Run." "And he is dead?" "So they say. But I didn't calkerlate I hit him at all," whined Joel. "No more you did, for I saw him run away, and he went clear out o' sight up the road. Who told you this?" demanded Mrs. Fox. "Those Rover boys, Tom an' Sam." "Those young imps! Joel, they are fooling you."
No good Leaping Horse talk." "This is a dog-goned bad business I have brought you into, Tom. I reckoned we should not get out without troubles, but I did not calkerlate on our getting into them so soon." "You did not bring me here, Jerry, so you need not blame yourself for that. It was I brought you into it, for you did not make up your mind to come till I had settled to go with Leaping Horse."
Up the hill they went, Janice marveling that Lottie could be so confident of the way. She seldom hesitated, and Janice allowed herself to be led. Mr. Cross Moore was still smoking his pipe out in front of his house. "I calkerlate that child's goin' to be drowned-ed some day," he said calmly, to Janice. "Jest a marcy that she ain't done it afore now.
"Seein' as how it all happened yesterday, and I only found it out last evening after prayer meeting', and it ain't ten o'clock in the forenoon yet, I calkerlate I ain't done anything so very monstrous," said that individual, in an injured tone.
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