I hain't no pressin' use fer another hoss, an', in fact,' I says, 'I've got one or two fer sale myself.' "'He's wuth two hunderd jest as he stands,' the feller says.

'He hain't had no trainin', an' he c'n draw two men in a road-wagin better'n fifty.' "Wa'al, the more I looked at him the better I liked him, but I only says, 'Jes' so, jes' so, he may be wuth the money, but jest as I'm fixed now he ain't wuth it to _me_, an' I hain't got that much money with me if he was,' I says.

The other feller hadn't said nothin' up to that time, an' he broke in now.

'I s'pose you'd take him fer a gift, wouldn't ye ?' he says, kind o' sneerin'.
"'Wa'al, yes,' I says, 'I dunno but I would if you'd throw in a pound of tea an' a halter.' "He kind o' laughed an' says, 'Wa'al, this ain't no gift enterprise, an' I guess we ain't goin' to trade, but I'd like to know,' he says, 'jest as a matter of curios'ty, what you'd say he _was_ wuth to ye ?' "'Wa'al,' I says, 'I come over this mornin' to see a feller that owed me a trifle o' money.

Exceptin' of some loose change, what he paid me 's all I got with me,' I says, takin' out my wallet.