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The man, however, did not allow himself to be disconcerted. "There's a proverb, gentlemen," said he, turning to us, "which says, that one should build a golden bridge for a beaten enemy; and a good proverb it is, I calkilate a considerable good one." "What do you mean, man, with your golden bridge?" cried Fanning. "This is no time for proverbs."
"I tell ye what, capting!" said he, passing his quid over from his right cheek to his left; "I calkilate, capting," he continued, "we'd better leave the poor devils of dons alone." "The poor devils of dons alone!" repeated Wharton in a rage. "Are you mad, man?" Fanning and I had just come up with our detachment, and were not less surprised and angry than Wharton was, at this breach of discipline.
That was my brother's way, and my father's before him." "It seems a bit a pity, though," said Mr. Tulliver, "as the lad should take after the mother's side instead o' the little wench. That's the worst on't wi' crossing o' breeds: you can never justly calkilate what'll come on't. The little un takes after my side, now: she's twice as 'cute as Tom. Too 'cute for a woman, I'm afraid," continued Mr.
Uncle Jake, however, was cunning of fence. "I don't feel lonesome," he declared. "Ye see I'm a cattle man, an' I like the travelled trails. I ain't huntin' no quicksands. Many a feller has mired down tryin' a new crossin'. No, sir, I calkilate ter remain single." "He's very foxy," commented Ajax, "but he means business. It really bothers me that they won't confide in us."
"You, lawyer? well, I should like to know how you calkilate to do that?" "I'll tell you. You know my profession." "I guess I do, pretty much." "Thus, then most of these are men of substance; at least they have enough to turn out a pretty good case each of them now all you have to do is to bring suit. I'll do all that, you know, the same as if you did it yourself.
I'll take my risk of killing him, on sight and on the square. I don't reckon to handicap myself with a warrant, and I am not going to draw him out with a lie. You hear me? That's me all the time!" "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.
And if you fire at 'em now, they'll find that they get nothin' by bein' cowards, and next time, I reckon, they'll sell their hides as dear as they can." Untimely as this palaver, to use a popular word, undoubtedly was, we could scarcely forbear smiling at the simple naïve manner in which the old Yankee spoke his mind. "Calkilate, captings," he concluded, "you'd better let the poor devils run.
Accordin' to my idee, gamblin's about the wust racket a feller kin work, but it takes all sorts of men to make a world, an' ef the boys is bound to hev a game, I calkilate they'd like to patronize his bank. Thet's made the old crowd mighty mad, an' they're a-talkin' about puttin' up a job of cheatin' on him an' then stringin' him up.
"Wal, supposin' they are? I don't see any call fer sech all-fired fuss as you're makin'. Stewart, I calkilate you're some stuck on your new job an' want to make a big show before " "Hawe, stop slinging that kind of talk," interrupted Stewart. "You got too free with your mouth once before! Now here, I'm supposed to be consulting an officer of the law.
"Do you know how much?" "Ther agent at W told me he thought about forty thousand, and so I made a rush, ter git through." "And did it grandly." "That's what I'm paid fer." "I have heard the story of your running the gantlet and surprising the road-agents." Old Huck laughed and replied: "Waal, I calkilate as how they was astonished.
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