Mrs. C.: Or any watermelons, perhaps?
Peasant: Don’t grow none.
Mrs. C.: I’m so sorry. I haven’t seen these dear old cousins of mine for so long; and I did want to take them some little thing to please them. I’d give as high as three or four dollars for a cradle or a watermelon.
Peasant: I don’t see no way to oblige ye.
Mrs. C. [affecting to discover the rocking-chair]: Oh, I know what we could do. My chauffeur is very ingenious. I could give you forty cents for that old chair and he can make a cradle out of it as we go along.
Peasant: That chair’s wuth more’n forty cents. It’s wuth a dollar if it’s wuth a penny!
Mrs. C. [handing the peasant a dollar]: Thank you! Please place it in my car. [Exit.]
Dialogue III
Miss D. [entering country general store because she has seen through the window a magnificent 1804 Seneca grate-burner stove with a fire-back showing the arms of Massachusetts which she wishes to add to her collection]: Have you by chance seen a lost Mexican hairless dog with one white forefoot, three brown, and a slight limp?
Storekeeper: Who?