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"I just been livin' on the idea of comin' back to it. Why, I The streets here, they're all narrow and choked up. I been countin' on the farm. I want to go back and be a farmer. I want " And then Ben Westerveld spoke. A new Ben Westerveld the old Ben Westerveld. Ben Westerveld, the farmer, the monarch over six hundred acres of bounteous bottomland. "That's all right, Dike," he said.
Dean thinks she oughtn't to be excited. Did you tell her why you and Snippey ran away?" "Of course I did, an' was countin' on doin' that same thing the first chance I had to speak with her alone, though I made sure she'd send me away." Then Seth repeated that which he had told Aunt Hannah, and while he was thus engaged Mr. Dean entered the house.
"An' Killeny Boy's a lot of dog . . . for the money," the steward retorted. "Why, sir, cuttin' out all sentiment, his tricks is worth more 'n that. Him not recognizing me when I don't want 'm to is worth fifty pounds of itself. An' there's his countin' an' his singin', an' all the rest of his tricks. Now, no matter how I got him, he didn't have them tricks. Them tricks are mine. I taught him them.
"Had you forgotten that the company was called together at eight o'clock this mornin'?" I asked, as if in surprise. "Not a bit of it, lad." "Then why didn't you come to the barracks?" "I knew you lads had somewhat of importance to decide, an' wasn't countin' on goin' where I might be said to have influenced you." "But don't you reckon yourself as belongin' any longer to the company?"
"The city is a fool alongside the country, an' I'm countin' on your havin' a reg'lar snap after you get settled down. When we land, you're to strike right out, an' keep on goin' till you're where there's nothin' but farms with milk, an' pie, an' stuff to eat layin' 'round loose for the first feller what comes to pick 'em up.
"That is, countin' years, and not experience." "I'm just about forty-five," said Tom, "countin' both." "Well, she came from Georgia " "And so did I," observed Tom Osby, casually. Dan Anderson was troubled. His horizon was wider than Tom Osby's. "It's far, Tom," said he; "it's very far." "I everidge about twenty mile a day," said Tom, not wholly understanding. "I can make it in less'n a week."
"'Tenny rate, I don't mean to be early this morning it's jography, and I don't know my lesson; but I do think you might speak about the horse, Deena; I never get a bit of sport worth countin'" this in a high, grumbling minor. "There was Ben; he had his automobile here the whole summer, and never offered it to me once!
"I ain't lyin'. There's two hundred thousand men. Then there's Bobby Lee. That's a hundred thousand more, which makes three hundred thousand. Then there's Stonewall Jackson, who's another hundred thousand, which brings the figures up to exactly what I said, four hundred thousand. Now, ain't I right, Bill?" "You shorely are, Jim. I was a fool for countin' the way I did.
But nobody said anything, and we passed on through and left Harvey still countin'. It was a little thing, but I couldn't help thinkin' how queer it was for a man that hadn't been married two weeks to leave his company and go back to the table to count spoons, and I asked myself how I'd 'a' felt if I'd found Abram countin' spoons durin' the honeymoon.
"Hain't got no figger, but if I had I calc'late it would be about a thousand dollars." "Give you two hundred," said Old Man Penny. Scattergood picked up his mop. "If you fellers really mean business, talk business. I've figgered my profits in this store, countin' in low prices, wouldn't be a cent under a couple of thousand the first year.... And you know it.
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