“It is your health, I calculate, as makes you break your good rules?”
“My health don’t trouble me much, I guess.”
“No? Why that’s well. How is the markets, sir? Are bread stuffs up?”
“I a’nt just capable to say.”
“A deal of money’s made by just looking after the article at the fountain’s head.”
“You may say that.”
“Do you look to be making great dealings in produce up the country?”
“Why that, I expect, is difficult to know.”
“I calculate you’ll find the markets changeable these times?”
“No markets ben’t very often without changing.”