Answer that, Bunce." "Well, lawyer, I guess you must have travelled pretty considerable down east in your time and among my people, for you do seem to know all about the matter jest as well and something better than myself." The lawyer, not a little flattered by the compliment so slyly and evasively put in, responded to the remark with a due regard to his own increase of importance.
"I am not ignorant of your country, pedler, and of the ways of its people; but it is not me that you are to satisfy.

Answer to the gentlemen around, if it is not a difficult matter for you to get water to boil at all during the winter months." "Why, to say the truth, lawyer, when coal is scarce and high in the market, heat is very hard to come.

Now, I guess the ware I brought out last season was made under those circumstances; but I have a lot on hand now, which will be here in a day or two, which I should like to trade to the colonel, and I guess I may venture to say, all the hot water in the country won't melt the solder off." "I tell you what, pedler, we are more likely to put you in hot water than try any more of your ware in that way.

But where's your plunder ?--let us see this fine lot of notions you speak of"-- was the speech of the colonel already so much referred to, and whose coffee-pot bottom furnished so broad a foundation for the trial.

He was a wild and roving person, to whom the tavern, and the racecourse, and the cockpit, from his very boyhood up, had been as the breath of life, and with whom the chance of mischief was never willingly foregone.