We ain't been sick f'r years.

Still, they's no tellin'," he added, seeing the answer to his objection in the agent's eyes.

"Times is purty close, too, with us, y' see; we've jest built that stable "---- "Say, I'll tell yeh what I'll do," said the stranger, waking up and speaking in a warmly generous tone.

"I'll give you ten bottles of the bitter if you'll let me paint a sign on that barn.

It won't hurt the barn a bit, and if you want 'o, you can paint it out a year from date.
Come, what d' ye say ?" "I guess I hadn't better." The agent thought that Uncle Ethan was after more pay, but in reality he was thinking of what his little old wife would say.
"It simply puts a family bitter in your home that may save you fifty dollars this comin' fall.