"I'll put up another, shall I?" asked the man.
"Why, of course, if you think it's best," said Potts.
Accordingly, the man went to work again, and soon had the rod in its place.
"That's a first-rate job," he said to Potts as they both stood eyeing it. "I like such a man as you are. Big-hearted, liberal, not afraid to put a dollar down for a good thing. There's some pleasure in dealin' with you. I like you so much that I'd put a couple more rods on that house, one on the north end and one on the south, for almost nothin'."
"It would make things safer, I suppose," said Potts.
"Certainly it would. I'd better do it, hadn't I, hey?"
"Just as you think proper," said Potts.
So the man ran up two more rods, and then he came down and said to
Potts, "There! that's done. Now let's settle up."
"Do what?"
"Why, the job's finished, and now I'll take my money."