“No, sir.”
“How much would you sell it for?”
“I hain’t got no idee. I calculate I’d ask you what it was really worth, and then I’d sell it for that.”
“You’d take my word for it?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Why?”
“I dunno, Mr. Sommers, but I would. You kin tell. You kin always tell.”
“If you can,” says Mr. Sommers, “you have a gift that is worth a great deal of money.... But you’re right about one thing; you shouldn’t sell for five dollars.”
“I’ll be blowed!” says Mr. Atkins.
“And you’d be right if you said you wouldn’t sell at all.”