The thing is NOT to be the 'other feller.' Ye ain't listenin'.

Yet these remarks is shrewd and humorous, and hez bin thought so by literary fellers." "H'm!" said his sister.

"What's that ye was jest sayin' about folks bein' willin' to pay ye for tellin' that hoss trade yarn o' yours ?" "Thet's only what one o' them smart New York publishers allowed it was worth arter hearin' me tell it," said Dan'l dryly.
"Go way! You or him must be crazy.

Why, it ain't ez good as that story 'bout a man who had a balky hoss that could be made to go only by buildin' a fire under him, and arter the man sells that hoss and the secret, and the man wot bought him tries it on, the blamed hoss lies down over the fire, and puts it out." "I've allus allowed that the story ye hev to tell yourself is a blamed sight funnier than the one ye're listenin' to," said Dan'l.

"Put that down among my sayin's, will ye ?" "But your story was never anythin' more than one o' them snippy things ye see in the papers, drored out to no end by you.