Sais I, 'that's a likely beast of yourn, Elder,' and I opened her mouth, and took a look at her, and no easy matter nother, I tell you, for she held on like a bear trap, with her jaws.

"'She won't suit you,' sais he, "with a smile, 'Mr.Slick.' "'I guess not,' sais I.
"'But she'll jist suit the French,' sais he.
"'It's lucky she don't speak French then,' sais I, 'or they'd soon find her tongue was too big for her mouth.

That critter will never see five-and-twenty, and I'm a thinkin', she's thirty year old, if she is a day.' "'I was a thinkin', said he, with a sly look out o' the corner of his eye, as if her age warn't no secret to him.

'I was a thinkin' it's time to put her off, and she'll jist suit the French.

They hante much for hosses to do, in a giniral way, but to ride about; and you won't say nothin' about her age, will you?
it might endamnify a sale.' "'Not I,' sais I, 'I skin my own foxes, and let other folks skin their'n.