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That was my idea, not friend Obed's. He remarked, "Daylight will soon be on, I guess, and it is time we were back at camp to get some breakfast, before we begin our trudge over the mountains, for I'm mighty hungry, I calkilate; ain't you, Dick?"
Albert arose and went to the window. "Come right along, I 'low the coast's clear," said the Poet. "No, I can not do that, Gray," said Charlton, though the prospect of liberty was very enticing. "See here, mister, I calkilate es this is yer last chance fer fifteen year ur more," put in the driver, thrusting his head in alongside his Hoosier friend's.
I ain't been in San Francisker mor' 'n three hours, and I calkilate, pard, that I've jest seen about ez square a sample of high-toned life as fellers ez haz bin here a year. Well, hastermanyanner ez the Greasers say. I'll be droppin' in to-morrow. My name's Reuben Allen o' Mariposa. I know yours; it's on the sign, and it ain't Sparlow."
"Ef I don't cowhide ebery nigger of 'em for dat trick." And clenching his hands he stalked boldly forward and demanded: "Whar's dat lady? Ef you doesn't want to git into trouble, I calkilate you'd better bring her back in double-quick time." Several savages sprung toward him, and Zeb prepared himself for the struggle.
"I calkilate it's a real turkey," answered the hunter, and motioning the lad to stay behind, he shouldered his rifle and passed swiftly down the path. Of all the Wetzel family a family noted from one end of the frontier to the other Lewis was as the most famous.
Men, because they had made stakes, and other men, because they had made none, bought up the available dogs and rushed out for Dyea over the last ice. Incidentally, it was discovered that Dave Harney possessed most of these dogs. "Going out?" Jacob Welse asked him on a day when the meridian sun for the first time felt faintly warm to the naked skin. "Well, I calkilate not.
"It's kinder hard to calkilate so close as that," returned Silas, gravely; "you had better tell your mother about it, an' you come back with the cent by-an'-by." "Why, father!" cried Rose. William shouldered his father aside with a sudden motion. "I'm tending to this, father," he said, in a stern whisper; "you leave it alone."
"I started for New York, but I've decided not to go there." "Oh, ye hev, hev ye? An' jes' what do ye calkilate to do?" "Well, Mr. Geary," Marjorie looked troubled, "and Mrs. Geary, I'd like to stay here for a while. I'll work for you, and you can pay me by giving me food and lodging.
Now I calkilate you can't take Target back East with you, an' you might as well let me have him." "Sure, Herky." I jumped off at once, led the horse over, and held out the bridle. Herky dismounted, and began fumbling with the stirrup straps. "Your legs are longer'n mine," he explained. "Oh yes, Herky, I almost forgot to return your hat," I said, removing the wide sombrero.
"Then you calkilate to go down thar," said Brace contemptuously, "yell out for him and Nellie, and let him line you on a rest from the first tree as if you were a grizzly." There was a pause. "What's that you were saying just now about a bearskin he sold?" asked Dunn slowly, as if reflecting. "He exchanged a bearskin," replied Brace, "with a single hole right over the heart.
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