I trade hosses with hoss-traders.

They all think they know as much as I do, an' I dunno but what they do.

They hain't learnt no diff'rent anyway, an' they've had chances enough.

If a feller come to me that didn't think he knowed anythin' about a hoss, an' wanted to buy on the square, he'd git, fur's I knew, square treatment.

At any rate I'd tell him all 't I knew.
But when one o' them smart Alecks comes along and cal'lates to do up old Dave, why he's got to take his chances, that's all.