"How much do you ask for your strawberries?"
"They come high. Nothing of mine is to be as cheap hereafter as it has been."
"I am so glad—for your sake. I should like to possess something of yours, but I suppose everything is too high now."
"Entirely too high!"
"If I only could have foreseen that there would be an increase of value! As for me, I have felt that I am getting cheaper lately. I may have to give myself away soon. If I only knew of some one who loved the lower animals."
"The fox, for instance?"
"Yes; do you know of any one who would accept the present of a fox?"
"Ahem! I wouldn't mind having a tame fox. I don't care much for wild foxes."
"Oh, this one would get tame—in time."
"I don't believe I know of any one just at present."