My three lots are equal to that one house, and suppose we exchange.

You take that land, and I take the mortgage on the Edwards place." "Do you know what you are talking about ?" Doctor Prescott said, sharply; for this plain proposition that he overreach the other aroused him to a show of fairness.
Squire Merritt laughed.

"Oh, I know you'll get the best of the bargain," he returned.
Then the doctor waxed suspicious.

This readiness to take the worst of a bargain while perfectly cognizant of it puzzled him.

He wondered if perchance this easy-going, card-playing, fishing Squire had, after all, some axe of policy to grind.