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He is a little man, and has a habit of rubbing the sharp ridge of his nose. "How be you, Jethro?" says Samuel. "Killed the brindle Thursday. Finest hide you ever seed." "G-goin' to town meetin' Tuesday g-goin' to town meetin' Tuesday Sam'l?" says Jethro. "I was callatin' to, Jethro." "Democrat hain't ye Democrat?" "Callate to be." "How much store do ye set by that hide?" Samuel rubs his nose.
"Callatin' to go to work?" he asked him, as the boarders walked into the best room. "Yes," replied Stephen, taken aback. And it may be said here that, if Mr. Hopper underestimated him, certainly he underestimated Mr. Hopper. "It ain't easy to get a job this Fall," said Eliphalet, "St. Louis houses have felt the panic." "I am sorry to hear that." "What business was you callatin' to grapple with?"
Suddenly he turned on me and asked me if I was 'callatin' to set up a mill. He gave me a queer feeling. Do you have many such odd characters in Coniston, Miss Cynthia? You're not going?" Cynthia had risen, and all of the laugher was gone from her eyes. What had happened to make her grow suddenly grave, Isaac Worthington never knew. "I have to get my father's supper," she said.
"They'll be surprised some, and disappointed some," said Lem, cheerily; "they was kind of plannin' a little celebration when you come back, Will you and Cynthy. Amandy Hatch was a-goin' to bake a cake, and the minister was callatin' to say some word of welcome. Wahn't goin' to be anything grand jest homelike. But you was right to come if you was tuckered. I guess Cynthy fetched you.
They ain't begun to sell her yet he's waitin' for somebody. Callatin' to buy her?" asked Mr. Hopper, with genial humor. Stephen took a deep breath. If he knocked Mr. Hopper down, he certainly could not buy her. And it was a relief to know that the sale had not begun. As for Eliphalet, he was beginning to like young Brice.
"They'll be surprised some, and disappointed some," said Lem, cheerily; "they was kind of plannin' a little celebration when you come back, Will you and Cynthy. Amandy Hatch was a-goin' to bake a cake, and the minister was callatin' to say some word of welcome. Wahn't goin' to be anything grand jest homelike. But you was right to come if you was tuckered. I guess Cynthy fetched you.
If the silk stockings had waited till to-night they wouldn't have found me in their way." "I callate twuz Providenshil they did'n wait, fer we'd 'a been gone suckers sure ez ye hedn't been on hand to dew wat ye did," said one of the men. "Thar ain't another man in town ez could a did it, or would dast try." "But ye ain't callatin ter go arter this be ye, Perez?" said Abner.
"Callatin' to go to work?" he asked him, as the boarders walked into the best room. "Yes," replied Stephen, taken aback. And it may be said here that, if Mr. Hopper underestimated him, certainly he underestimated Mr. Hopper. "It ain't easy to get a job this Fall," said Eliphalet, "St. Louis houses have felt the panic." "I am sorry to hear that." "What business was you callatin' to grapple with?"
"About that interest," said Eben, plunging into the dread subject, "don't know as I'm ready this month after all." "G-goin' to town meetin', Eben?" "Wahn't callatin' to," answered Eben. "G-goin' to town meetin', Eben?" Eben, puzzled and dismayed, ran his hand through his hair. "Wahn't callatin' to but I kin I kin." "D-Democrat hain't ye D-Democrat?" "I kin be," said Eben.
And, with a glance of contemptuous triumph around the circle, Jabez turned on his heel and went out. The silence was first broken by Ezra Phelps, who said quietly: "Wal, Jabez ain't fur from right. It's abaout so. Some says the King is callatin to try to git the colonies back agin fore long.
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