In common with _calk'late_, it has sometimes a sense of purpose or expectation, as when a man says, "I 'low to go to town to-morry."] [Footnote 16: No phrase of the Hoosier and South-western dialect is such a stumbling-block to the outsider as _right smart_.

The writer from the North or East will generally use it wrongly.

Mrs.Stowe says, "I sold right smart of eggs," but the Hoosier woman as I knew her would have said "a right smart lot of eggs" or "a right smart of eggs," using the article and understanding the noun.

A farmer omitting the preposition boasts of having "raised right smart corn" this year.

No expression could have a more vague sense than this.