He was listening, with a good-humored, negligent air, half comic, half contemptuous, to Haley, who was very volubly expatiating on the quality of the article for which they were bargaining.
"All the moral and Christian virtues bound in black Morocco, complete!" he said, when Haley had finished.

"Well, now, my good fellow, what's the damage, as they say in Kentucky; in short, what's to be paid out for this business?
How much are you going to cheat me, now?
Out with it!" "Wal," said Haley, "if I should say thirteen hundred dollars for that ar fellow, I shouldn't but just save myself; I shouldn't, now, re'ly." "Poor fellow!" said the young man, fixing his keen, mocking blue eye on him; "but I suppose you'd let me have him for that, out of a particular regard for me." "Well, the young lady here seems to be sot on him, and nat'lly enough." "O! certainly, there's a call on your benevolence, my friend.

Now, as a matter of Christian charity, how cheap could you afford to let him go, to oblige a young lady that's particular sot on him ?" "Wal, now, just think on 't," said the trader; "just look at them limbs,--broad-chested, strong as a horse.

Look at his head; them high forrads allays shows calculatin niggers, that'll do any kind o' thing.
I've, marked that ar.

Now, a nigger of that ar heft and build is worth considerable, just as you may say, for his body, supposin he's stupid; but come to put in his calculatin faculties, and them which I can show he has oncommon, why, of course, it makes him come higher.