"It's awful hard to have to walk everywhere, and the good thing about a wheel is that it don't have to eat."
"And the bad thing about a burro is that it does."
"Are you in earnest? Do you want to sell it?"
"No; I don't want to at all, but I'm going to if I can. Do you know anybody who really might buy Pepit?"
"Guess I do. Guess the 'Supe' would."
"The 'Supe'—Mr. Metcalf?"
"Yes; I heard him say he'd like to get such a pair of mules or donkeys, or whatever they are, for his children. He's got a slew of them, and he gets 'em every conceivable thing. I wouldn't wonder if he did, if you was to ask him."
"Will he be at the mill to-day?"
"No; he's at his house, I guess. The mill's shut up, only the watchman there. The 'Supe' don't hang around there himself so much since the new 'boss' came."