You can't most alwus gen'ally tell." "Didn't the deakin have a chance to try him ?" "He had all the chance he ast fer," replied David.

"Fact is, he done most of the sellin', as well 's the buyin', himself." "How's that ?" "Wa'al," said David, "it come about like this: After I'd got the hoss where I c'd handle him I begun to think I'd had some int'restin' an' valu'ble experience, an' it wa'n't scurcely fair to keep it all to myself.

I didn't want no patent on't, an' I was willin' to let some other feller git a piece.

So one mornin', week before last--let's see, week ago Tuesday it was, an' a mighty nice mornin' it was, too--one o' them days that kind o' lib'ral up your mind--I allowed to hitch an' drive up past the deakin's an' back, an' mebbe git somethin' to strengthen my faith, et cetery, in case I run acrost him.

Wa'al, 's I come along I seen the deakin putterin' 'round, an' I waved my hand to him an' went by a-kitin'.