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"You're right about that!" Henry Rooter agreed heartily. "We wouldn't let another one in it. Not for fifty dollars! Just look at all the trouble we took, moiling and toiling, to get your ole poem printed as nice as we could, so it wouldn't ruin our newspaper, and then you come over here and go on like this, and all this and that, why, I wouldn't go through it again for a hunderd dollars!
But you got this end of the ford. That makes a little difference." "Makes 'bout fifteen hunderd dollars' diff'rence." It was Braden's turn to laugh. "My friend, you'll hist to two thousand pretty soon," he warned; and arose. "Better take five hunderd and fifty when it's offered." He flung out his hands as if he were feeding hens. Lancaster got up with him, righteously angry.
"Kind of got a bone to pick with McKettrick, eh?" "Maybe." "Tell you what I'll do," said Scattergood. "I'll sell you forty-nine per cent of the stock at a hunderd and twenty. Stock to stand in my name till the road's ready to operate, I don't want it known I've been sellin' any.... Shouldn't be s'prised if you was able to pick up control one way and another but I hain't goin' to sell it to you."
As to the ladies of the town, he said she told him they certainly was the most domestic she'd ever known! Hart was so grateful and he had a right to be he left a hunderd dollars with Tenderfoot Sal and told her to blow off the town for him that night by running a free bar. Sal done it, right enough and that turned out to be about the hottest night Palomitas ever had.
"Don't want to," said Andy, caustically. "No, you wouldn't take much comfort in 'em," said William. "'T is cur'us 't anybody should want a picter o' my old hut up there 'nough to pay how much d'ye s'pose they did pay for it, Andy?" Andy glanced at it contemptuously. It glowed in the light of the late sun, warm and radiant. "'T ain't wuth a hunderd," he said. Uncle William's face fell a little.
"Well, you won't believe it when I tell you; nobody'd believe it. He paid me five hunderd dollars for it five hunderd! It ain't wuth fifty." The artist smiled at him genially. "Well he's satisfied." "But it ain't right," said the man, gloomily. He had returned to his fish. "It ain't right. I can't bear to have Willum such a fool." "I think I'll go for a sail," said the artist.
"I was goin' to ask you to lend me a hunderd, Andy." Andy wriggled a little. "You don't hev to go," he said feebly. "If he needs me, I'll have to. I ain't ever been needed much livin' alone so. You don't know how 't is. You have somebody to need you. Harriet needs you " "Lord, yes, Harr'et needs me. Don't doubt she needs me this minute pail o' water or suthin'." Andrew chuckled gloomily.
The baby 'd 'a' grown up an' gone off somewhere, an' the lion 'll stay right where you put him, for he 's so heavy that the monument man says we 'll have to drive piles all down aroun' father. Then, too, maybe I could n't 'a' managed a boy an' I can scour that lion all I want to. 'N' I will scour him too, nobody need n't suppose 't I've paid three hunderd dollars f'r anythin' to let it get mossy.
The widow sat down and wiped her damp hands on her apron, looking upon her hopeful with an expression of mingled awe and pride. "Kin ye do it, Skim?" she asked softly. "I s'pose I kin turn out one a day, by hard work," he said confidently. "At thirty a day, the lowes' price, thet's a hunderd 'n' eighty a week, seven hunderd 'n' twenty a month, or over eight thousan' dollars a year.
"Oh, see!" said Molly, "'Price $500'! Do you b'lieve it?" "Well, well!" came Mrs. Eli Pike's ruminant voice from the crowd. "I'm glad I don't own that creatur'! I shouldn't sleep nights if I had five hunderd dollars in cow." "Tain't five hunderd dollars," said Hiram Cole, elbowing his way to the front. "'Tain't p'inted right, that's all. P'int off two ciphers "
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