Your Joe seems sound as a dollar, and he's just in his prime.

A hundred and fifty is dirt cheap for him, and the surrey will be worth at least seventy-five.
Put in the harness at twenty-five, and I'll give you two-fifty for the outfit, and not a cent more or less.

Eh ?" "No, indeed," said Ethel.

"We could not get more than a hundred dollars from anyone else around here." "Because your neighbors are countrymen, and can't afford a proper investment.

So when they buy at all they only give about half what a thing is actually worth.