After looking my horses over carefully, and without leaving his carriage, he replied:
"For one hundred and twenty-five dollars to boot."
"All right, sir. Here is your money," and I counted it out and handed it over to him.
"But what sort of a team are you trading me?"
"No matter, sir. You have got your money, so unhitch, and I'll do the same."
He hesitated a moment, but when the crowd of men standing by began laughing at him, he commenced to unhitch.
Before leaving him I remarked that I had too much business on hand to spend any time with a lame horse, nor did I care to dicker a minute on a horse trade.
Ten minutes later we were driving off with a pair of colts that had never been hitched or driven but three times.
We finished our business in Northern Michigan, and drove this team home, where I broke them to drive tandem.