kalkerlate

"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!"

The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land 1887

"They must be hard to suit," I said; "I 'kalkerlate' _you're_ not a

Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore

Boston, and he was such a "durned electric eel of a cuss, here, there, and everywhere," that it would be "just dubersome to kalkerlate" when he would "reel his way back to hum!"

Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes

I've talked it over 'long with my nigs, and we kalkerlate ef these ar doin's go eny furder, ter tap no more trees, but cl'ar land an 'go ter raisin' craps. '

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

"And now, I kalkerlate, it's time for grub," said the American when the tent was finished and the ladies 'comfort provided for -- Captain Dinks, still in his cot, being ensconced in a warm corner -- "I hope that blessed darkey has got something good, for I feel powerful holler, I dew!"

The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land 1887

I kalkerlate my grandfather was a fraud, and took me in on that job.

The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land 1887

"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!"

The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land 1887

"I didn't want you to cut short the vittles, but only to kinder kalkerlate!"

The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land 1887

"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."

The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land 1887

Not to be lost in the shuffle was a tall canting specimen of Yankee-dom perched on a water cask that "reckoned ther is right smart chance of folks on this 'ere ship," and "kalkerlate that that boat swinging thar war a good place to stow my fixin's in."

Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century Mifflin Wistar Gibbs 1885