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Updated: May 6, 2025
"Do you know that you are liable to be punished for insubordination?" said I. "It's your duty to fire, and do the enemy all the harm you can; not to be quoting proverbs." "Calkilate it is," replied the man very coolly. "Calkilate I could shoot 'em without either danger or trouble; but I reckon that would be like Spaniards or Mexicans; not like Americans not prudent." "Not like Americans?
"Well, then, colonel, that'll just suit me, for I did calkilate to call on you at the farm, on my way into the nation where I'm going looking out for furs." "Yes, and live on the best for a week, under some pretence that your nag is sick, or you sick, or something in the way of a start then go off, cheat, and laugh at me in the bargain.
"Can't you tell us what it means this disappearance?" asked Jim, his voice low and anxious. "They're gone, canoe and all. I knew Wetzel was going, but I didn't calkilate on the lad. Mebbe he followed Wetzel, mebbe he didn't," answered the taciturn guide, and he spoke no more.
There's moss under the tree an' there's where the redskins'll lay down to rest." "I've got that; now out with your plan." "Wal, I calkilate it's this. The moon'll be up in about an hour. We'll crawl as we've never crawled afore, because Helen's life depends as much on our not makin' a noise, as it does on fightin' when the time comes.
I was passin' the Bakers' shanty, and I heard one of them gals a singing a camp-meeting hymn. I don't calkilate to run agin you young fellers in any sparkin' or canoodlin' that's goin' on, but her voice sounded so pow'ful soothin' and pretty thet I jest stood there and listened. Then the old woman old Mother Baker SHE joined in, and I listened too.
Lass, it's yours an' I'm goin' to make you keep it." "How much is there?" queried Allie, with thrills of curiosity. How well she remembered Horn! He had told her he had no relatives. Indeed, the gold was hers. "Wal, Neale an' me couldn't calkilate how much, hevin' nothin' to weigh the gold. But it's a fortune." Allie turned from the pack to the earnest face of the trapper.
This statement, bearing every evidence of the grossest mendacity, was lightly passed over, and the men walked on with the deepest gravity. "But hev you?" Cass presently asked of another. "I lost my pile to Jack Hamlin at draw-poker, over at Wingdam last night," returned the other, pensively, "but I don't calkilate to find it lying round loose."
This statement, bearing every evidence of the grossest mendacity, was lightly passed over, and the men walked on with the deepest gravity. "But hev you?" Cass presently asked of another. "I lost my pile to Jack Hamlin at draw-poker, over at Wingdam last night," returned the other, pensively, "but I don't calkilate to find it lying round loose."
Others of the by-standers or by-sitters put various questions as to the nature of the man's business with Mary Ann. One asked, "Is she your daughter?" "Why, a little nearer than that, I calkilate," said the poor devil. Here the mirth was increased, it being evident that the woman was his wife.
"I was afeared Girty hed your friends, the sisters, an' mebbe your brother, too. Jack Zane said the renegade was hangin' round the village, an' that couldn't be fer no good." "Come on. Let's kill the fiend!" cried Joe, white to the lips. "I calkilate they're about a mile down stream, makin' camp fer the night. I know the place. There's a fine spring, an, look!
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