He asked me what were the profits.

I told him.
"'Then I am afraid that you would want a bigger sum than I could pay, MacIntosh,' he said.

'I have been a saving man, especially since I first thought of marrying, and I have laid by half my pay for the last eight years; but that would not go far towards the purchase of the place, for your profits in a year are as much as my savings of eight years.' So I said to him, 'Well, we will get the place valued.

You will want half the money that you have saved to stock it well, the other half you shall pay me down; and I will give you five years to pay the rest, you paying me a tenth part every half year.' "Well, sir, we struck a bargain on that.

The place has been valued, and on Saturday evening Morrison will come straight in and take it over.