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"Well," said Starbuck, "we kalkilate to gather early Christmas night in Hooper's Hollow and rig ourselves up Injun fashion, and then start for Spindler's with pitch-pine torches, and have a 'torchlight dance' around the house; them who does the dancin' and yellin' outside takin' their turn at goin' in and hevin' refreshment.
I don't think he knew me much, any way. "How old mout ye be, Clarence?" "Eleven." "Well, as you're suthin of a pup" Clarence started, and recalled Peyton's first criticism of him "I reckon to tell ye suthin. Ye ain't goin' to be skeert, or afeard, or lose yer sand, I kalkilate, for skunkin' ain't in your breed.
"Thar'll be some cussin' and a big row from YOU, I kalkilate and maybe some fightin' all round," said Scranton dispassionately. "But it will be all the same in the end. The hull thing will come out, and you'll hev to slide just the same. T'otherwise, ef ye slide out NOW, it's without a row." "And do you suppose a business man like me can disappear without a fuss over it?" said Farendell angrily.
"I know all the ranch proprietors for twenty leagues around, and they've lost as many cattle and horses as I have." "I wanter know," said Ezekiel, with grim interest. "Then you've already had consid'ble losses, eh? I kalkilate them cattle are vally'ble about wot figger do you reckon yer out and injured?" "Three or four thousand dollars, I suppose, altogether," replied Demorest, shortly.
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