He says: "Why, what can you mean, my boy ?" I says, "Don't you ask me no questions about it, please.

You'll take it -- won't you ?" He says: "Well, I'm puzzled.

Is something the matter ?" "Please take it," says I, "and don't ask me nothing--then I won't have to tell no lies." He studied a while, and then he says: "Oho-o! I think I see.

You want to SELL all your property to me--not give it.

That's the correct idea." Then he wrote something on a paper and read it over, and says: "There; you see it says 'for a consideration.' That means I have bought it of you and paid you for it.