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"I guess that air prime," said Mr Lathrope; "but I've hed enuff v'yging fur a spell, and I kinder kalkerlate I'll make tracks to hum. I don't mind either, darkey, if I take you along o' me! I've got a fust-rate brown-stone front in Philadelphy, and I'll chuck you in as cook, if you like, hey?" "Golly, massa, you don't mean dat, suah!" "Guess I dew," said the American deliberately.
"Ah!" said the American, "I kalkerlate that's coming to hum." "The food question is a vital necessity in most cases, and especially now in ours," continued the other "taking into account the many mouths we have to feed." "But the Lord filleth the hungry, we're told," said Mrs
"Thank God!" exclaimed Mr Meldrum, in heartfelt thanksgiving to Him who controls the winds and storms, as he sprang to aid the man at the wheel, seeing that he had a hard task to keep the helm over. "Ya-as, I guess that were a narrow squeak," said the American; "and I kalkerlate I'll make tracks down south fore another of them snorters come!"
Soon, a little more exertion on the part of the rowers would decide whether the naval officer had judged rightly or wrongly as to there being a bay there a veritable "harbour of refuge" it would be for them. "I guess, mister," said Mr Lathrope, who had been for some time quieter than usual, "that air animile ain't far off its roosting peg; and whar he lands I kalkerlate we can dew too."
"I didn't want you to cut short the vittles, but only to kinder kalkerlate!" "I'm just doing that," replied the other, "and we'll see what we've got to depend upon at once."
"You'd have ben a smart coon to have done the contrary, I guess, mister, anyhow," said the American drily. "Sure, an' it's the sole of me fut I mane, sorr," explained the first- mate in Hibernian fashion. "Jest so," said Mr Lathrope, laughing at the blunder; "and it would puzzle you to walk different, I kalkerlate, that is onless you tried the sole of your head!"
I tell you what, Thomas, and his manner became very insinuating and frank, 'as nigh as I can kalkerlate I'm worth three millions, fair and square, and there's three on 'em to divide it amongst May Jane, Bill, and Ann 'Liza. Now, s'posin' we say three into three million, don't it leave a million? Tom acknowledged that it did, and Peterkin continued: 'Jess so.
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