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Updated: June 14, 2025
"I calc'late," he said to himself, "that this here dicker'll keep Crane and Keith gropin' and wonderin' and scrutinizin' more or less when it gits to their ears. Shouldn't be s'prised if it come to worry 'em a mite." So, having created a diversion to conceal the movements of his main attack, Scattergood got out his maps and began scientifically to plan his fall and winter campaign.
"Well, hit stan' to reason we is. You knows how long we's been a-skimmin' over it. Mus' be mos' out o' san'. Hit's a wonder to me dat it's hilt out as long as it has." "Shucks, there's plenty sand, you needn't worry." "Oh, I ain't a-worryin', Mars Tom, only wonderin', dat's all.
"Now who said he was?" her father retorted. "For a young woman with the price of a herd of steers on her third finger you're sort o' short this mornin'. Now I'm jus' wonderin' how far you can see through a board fence, Zen. Are you surprised that Drazk has disappeared?" She was entirely at a loss to understand the drift of her father's talk.
"Don't you know that she only starts things in this town? She sets folks up in the business of 'doing for themselves'. Then she goes along about her own business. "What's that? Well, I dunno. I'm wonderin' myself just where she'll break out next!" It bade fair to be an old-fashioned northern New England winter.
"They fired from the fort just in time," said Tom Wilmore. Henry glanced upward. The palisade was at least three hundred yards away. "Those bullets did not come from Fort Prescott," he said. "It's too far from us, and they were fired by better marksmen than any who are up there now." "I think so, too," said Seth Cole, "an' I'm wonderin' who pulled them triggers."
"My family meant me for the army," he said. "Seen much service, Colonel?" The Kentuckian laughed. "Never wasted a day soldiering in my life." "Oh!" "Maybe you're wonderin'," said Potts, "why he's a Colonel!" The Jesuit made a deprecatory gesture, politely disclaiming any such rude curiosity. "He's from Kentucky, you see;" and the smile went round.
"Certain you kin," said Grandmother Penny, cordially. "Got a important bankin' matter over to the county seat, Mr. Spackles, and I was wonderin' if I could figger on your help?" "To be sure you kin, Scattergood. To be sure." "Got to have a brainy man over there day after to-morrer. B'jing! that's circus day, too. Didn't think of that till this minnit.
"Oh, I wasn't worryin', I was only wonderin'. But we must go, Samuel, for the poor child won't eat a bit while we are here. After you've eaten what there is there, bring the plate in to me," she said to Toby, as she took her lean husband by the arm and walked him off toward their own tent.
"And I'm thinkin' that it'll be a few days after this whin we try it agin," added Terry, delighted to see his loved comrade before him unharmed; "I jist give up when I seen you plunge in among the rocks, and was wonderin' how your father and mother and sister Edith would faal when I should be luggin' your dead body home."
You can jest go about your reg'lar business 'thout any fear of disturbin' her any further than she's disturbed a'ready, which is consid'rable. I don't mind it a mite nowadays, though, after forty years of it. It would kind o' gall me to keep a stiddy watch of a female's disposition day by day, wonderin' when she was goin' to have a tantrum.
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