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"Calkilatin'," said he, "that the wild prairieman's rifle was a capital good one, as good a one as ever killed a bear, he tho't it a pity that it should fall into bad hands, so went to secure it himself, although the frontispiece of its dead owner warn't very invitin'. But when he stooped to take the gun, he got such a shove as knocked him backwards, and on getting up, he saw the prairieman openin' his jacket and examinin' a wound on his breast, which was neither deep nor dangerous, although it had taken away the man's senses for a while.
Orter know by this time that shyness with a gal don't pay." "Mebbe he allows it don't get left as often as impudence." "I was calkilatin' to say that with these yer hoss-thieves about, yer filly ain't safe in the pasture. I took a turn round there two or three times last evening to see if she was all right." "No! DID ye, now? I was jest wonderin" "I did quite late, too!
And she's bin bedridden these twelve year; but she can learn anybody about the Bible; she knows tex's by thousands; there hain't no one can puzzle Jenny over the Bible. 'Is she very ill? asked Betty. 'She's just bedridden with rheumatics, that's all; but 'tis quite enough; and I was calkilatin' only t'other day that I'll have to be diggin' her grave afore Christmas.
Then after a moment she added, with a faint laugh, "You see we haven't seen each other for so long it's all so sudden so unexpected." "But you kem here, just now, calkilatin' to find me?" said Collinson gravely. "Yes, yes," she said quickly, still grasping both his hands, but with her head slightly turned in the direction of the mill.
I pelted down that trail ahead of them all like grim death, calkilatin' to get there before the bear; they wouldn't have understood me; I was too high up to call to the creature when he did come out, and I kinder hoped you wouldn't see him.
"I've been calkilatin' to myself, Miss Budd," said Abner resignedly, "that when two folks like ez you and me meet together to kinder discuss things that might go so far ez to keep them together, if they hez had anything of that sort in their lives afore, they ought to speak of it confidentially like together."
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