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"'It seems as if the Lord were not yet willing to let us marry, I said. "'Course not, he answered. 'When yer boat is in the rapids it's no time fer to go ashore an' pick apples. I cocalate the Lord is usin' ye fer to show the Ol' World what's inside o' us Americans.
I wish I'd 'a' killed the cuss, but as 'twere, we had consid'able trouble on our hands. Right erway we heard two guns go off over by the house. I knowed that our firin' had prob'ly woke up some o' the sleepers. We pounded the ground an' got thar as quick as we could. The two wimmen wa'n't fur behind. They didn't cocalate to lose us you hear to me.
"Wal, my son, I cocalate they's goin' to be a weddin' in our fam'ly afore long," said the latter. "What makes you think so?" Jack inquired. "'Cause John Burgoyne, High Cockylorum and Cockydoodledo, an' all his army has been licked an' kicked an' started fer hum an' made to promise that they won't be sassy no more. I tell ye the war is goin' to end. They'll see that it won't pay to keep it up."
I cocalate there ain't no better man-timber nowhere no, sir, not nowhere in this world call it king er lord er duke er any name ye like. So, sir, if ye feel like doin' suthin' fer me which I didn't never expect it, when I done what I did I'll say be good to the boy. You'd never have to be 'shamed o' him." "He's a likely lad," said Colonel Hare.
I cocalate you an' me could do good work." Immediately the young man packed his box and set out by stage on his way to the North. Near West Point, he left the sleigh, which had stopped for repairs, and put on his skates and with the wind mostly at his back, made Albany early that evening on the river roof.
"Wall, sir, I cocalate it means that ol' Mike Harpe has been chased out o' the Ohio country an' has come down the big river an' into Lake Champlain with some o' his band an' gone to cuttin' up an' been obleeged to take to the bush. They've robbed somebody an' are puttin' fer salt water. They'll hire a boat an' go south an' then p'int fer the 'Ganies.
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