"Jes' so. In that case ye want a perty good one. Tall, straight, slender, small-limbed; proper in every way."
"Exactly."
"Well, I've got it."
"So I have heard. I have come to bargain for it."
"All right! Want to look at it fust, I s'pose."
"I have come prepared to inspect it."
"That's business. I'll go down to the swamp with ye an' we'll look her over."
Grandpa Walker rose from his chair and replaced his cap on his head.
"Is the tree located at some distance from the house?" inquired the colonel.
"Oh, mebbe a quarter of a mile; mebbe not so fer."