You wan' to rent a farm; I need one.

Let me have the river eighty, or I'll take the whole business on a share of a third an' Merry Etty, and I to stay here with you jest as if nothin' 'd happened.

Come, now, what d' y' say ?" There was something winning in the whole bearing of the man as he stood before the father, who remained silent and grim.
"Or if you don't do that, why, there's nothin' left fer Merry an' me but to go back to La Crosse, where I can have my choice of a dozen farms.
Now this is the way things is standin'.

I don't want to be underhanded about this thing"---- "That's a fair offer," said Mr.Jennings in the pause which followed.
"You'd better do it, neighbor Bacon.

Nobuddy need know how things stood; they were married in my house--I thought that 'u'd be best.