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Updated: June 17, 2025
Corner of Chickasaw Drive and Sycamore Avenue: "Still, of course we've got to figger the baby as a prime factor enterin' into the case and helpin' to straighten things out. Spry little trick fur three days old, goin' on four, wuzn't she?
But Marcel swept it aside without scruple. "I call this 'Hell's Gate," he said, with a ready laugh. "Sounds rotten? But I always figger you need to pass through 'some' hell to make Paradise. We're in a mighty big country, and a-top of us are hundreds, and maybe thousands, of miles of forests that never heard tell of man. Wait. There's a break soon, just beyond the big rapids.
Then we've forest limits to hand us the cordage for that output that could give us three times what we're needing for a thousand years. Labour? We got it plenty. And later, by closing in our system of foresting, I figger to cut out present costs on a sight bigger output. The plans for all that are fixed in my head. Then we come to the market for our stuff, an' I guess that's the syrup in the pie.
Both of 'em is aware of this hamlet, an' Peets, partic'lar, is well acquainted with a old Mexican sharp who lives thar he's a kind o' schoolmaster among 'em who's mighty cunnin' an' learned. His name is Jose Miguel. "'An' I'm beginnin' to figger, says Peets, 'that this ghostly rider is the foxy little Jose Miguel.
Henry said at last that they had come to the place where Jim Hart had been forced to turn aside. "Do you reckon that Jim wuz hit hard?" asked Shif'less Sol. "I hope not," replied Henry earnestly, "and the chances are all in his favor. Stray bullets in the dark don't often kill." "I figger," said Tom Ross, "that he waded up this little creek that comes down here, and turns off to the south.
"Peewee Simpson is at my stalls when they brings the colt over, 'n' after we've sized him up I asks Peewee what he thinks of the little rooster. "'Him? says Peewee. 'He's a bear-cat. I'll bet he entertains you frequent 'n' at short notice. I don't figger him related to Mary's lamb, not any. You better keep your eye on little Hamilton. Hammy's likely to be a naughty boy any time.
Good night, Nal." She ran swiftly away, holding high her skirts on account of the sticker grass. Nal watched her retreating figure admiringly. "A good gait," he murmured critically, "no interferin' an' nothin' gummy about the pastern!" He then squatted down, cowboy fashion, upon his hams, and smoothing carefully a piece of level ground, began to what he called "figger."
"Twelve hundred dollars looks to be a good figger for a dress, ain't it? But Malviny knows, I reckon, what ought to be worn at the Tooilleries, and she don't want our Mamie to take a back seat before them furrin' princesses and gran' dukes. It's a slap-up affair, I kalkilate. Let's see. I disremember whether it's an emperor or a king that's rulin' over thar now.
As he crooked his leg and dragged the match across the faded blue of his trousers he growled: "I dunno who he is, nor where he's come from, nor where he's goin' to, nor when he expects to get back, but, as near as I can figger it, he owes me ten cents' toll and three dollars' fine-money, makin' a total of three ten, to be charged and collected, as I understand it."
"We figger that if a dozen or two of 'em's cleaned out, quick and mysterious, the rest'll tuck tail and sneak. It's happened that way in other places more than once, as you and I know. Well, you're the man that don't have to take lessons." "Money talks," repeated Mark, still looking into the chimney.
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