When I got to Mr.Ralston's house, I said to him: "Papa says I may offer you twenty dollars for the colt, but if you won't take that, I am to offer twenty-two and a half, and if you won't take that, to give you twenty-five." It would not require a Connecticut man to guess the price finally agreed upon.

This story is nearly true.

I certainly showed very plainly that I had come for the colt and meant to have him.

I could not have been over eight years old at the time.

This transaction caused me great heart-burning.