'Don't you want the roan fer your own use ?' I says.

'Mebbe we c'd shade the price a little.' 'No,' he says, 'I guess not.

I don't need another hoss jest now.' An' then, after a minute he says: 'Say, mebbe the bay hoss we drove 'd come nearer the mark fer White, if he's all right.

Jest as soon I'd look at him ?' he says.
'Wa'al, I hain't no objections, but I guess he's more of a hoss than the dominie 'd care for, but I'll go an' fetch him out,' I says.

So I brought him out, an' the deakin looked him all over.