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When he goes on to a job as elaborately as all this, you can bet your last dollar that the game runs into five figures, and, like a loyal subject of his Gracious Majesty King Edward VII, whom may the Lord save, he reckons not in dollars but in pounds sterling." "Who can Cato be, I wonder?" I asked. "We'll know at eight o'clock," said Holmes. "I intend to have him up." "Up? Up where?" I asked.
For a moment, I reckons that somehow we-all has opened up a volcano inadvertent, an' that from now on Loosiana can boast a Hecla of her own. But it ain't no volcano. It's my ammunition waggons which, with two thousund rounds is standin' about one hundred yards to my r'ar. The Yanks done blows up the whole outfit with one of their shells.
If only he realises that those doors are not worth the trouble of trying to unlock, all will be well for him; if he doesn't, he will be the sufferer. . . . Which is doubtless utterly wrong, but such is the Law and the Prophets. "I reckons there are troublous times ahead of us, sir," went on the old man. "More troublous than any we are going through now though them's bad enough, in all conscience.
When there is no star on the bosom of night, no chart on the unknown sea, no lover or friend or interpreter of the ways of God; and when, in spite of all, the soul knows Him whom it has believed, and clings to Him though unseen, and reckons that neither life, nor death, nor principalities, nor powers, can shut out the love of God in Christ.
And he is a poor self-swindler who lies to himself while he reckons the items, and sets down under the head happiness that which is misery. Call anguish anguish, and despair despair; write both down in strong characters with a resolute pen: you will the better pay your debt to Doom.
As fast as we-alls peels a buffalo, we rolls his carcass down hill into Salt Lake, an' what do you-alls reckons takes place? The water's that briny, it pickles said buffalo-meat plumb through, an' every year after, when Bridger an' me is back thar we're trappin' an' huntin' them times, all we has to do is haul one of them twenty thousand pickled buffalos ashore an' eat him.
'You're all right, Bill, goes on this Cherokee to the barkeep, but now I goes back of the box for this infant boy, I reckons I'll saw him off onto a preacher, or some sharp sim'lar, where he gets a Christian example. Whatever do you think? "The barkeep says himse'f he allows it's the play to make.
Then he reckons up all the good things which would accrue to him: "Closest friendship with Pompey with Cæsar also, should he wish it; the making up of all quarrels with his enemies; popularity with the people; ease for his old age, which was coming on him. But that conclusion moves me to which I came in my third book."
Jest as Tutt allows he's out to shoot for the squaw in a minute, an' as thar's no gettin' away from it, I tells him to paint himse'f for war an' come a-runnin'. "I has to carry a hard face; for we're shorely in for it. Yere we be four days from Wolfville, an' the Injuns an' I reckons thar's twenty bucks in the outfit-is camped in between us an' he'p.
"Well, I reckons Miss Peggy's cravin' fer her luncheon, an' it's high time she done got it, too. Is yo' know de time?" "Cou'se I knows de time," brindled Cynthia, "but 'pears lak time don' count wid some folks. Kin YO' see de clock, Mis' Jones?" The question was sprung so suddenly that Minerva jumped.
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