“A hundred and twenty-five acres; how much have you?”
“Just about the same. What’s your land worth, here?”
“Some on’t—what we call swamp-land—kinder low and wet like, you know—that’s worth five dollars an acre; and mainly it’s worth a dollar and a half or two dollars—that’s takin’ a common trac’ of upland. What’s yours worth?”
“A hundred and fifty to two hundred dollars.”
“What!”
“A hundred and fifty to two hundred.”
“Dollars?”
“Yes.”
“Not an acre?”
“Yes.”