He had caught up other details as he hurried to and fro, when he ran for the doctor.

He was thus prepared to satisfy the youth's inquiry.
"Well, squire, did you ever see a live Yankee ?" The youth smiled, answering affirmatively.
"He's a pedler, you know, and that means a chap what can wheedle the eyes out of your head, the soul out of your body, the gould out of your pocket, and give you nothing but brass, and tin, and copper, in the place of 'em.

Well, all the hubbub you hear is jest now about one of these same Yankee pedlers.

The regilators have caught the varmint--one Jared Bunce, as he calls himself--and a more cunning, rascally, presumptious critter don't come out of all Connecticut.

He's been a cheating and swindling all the old women round the country.