"Make it ninety."
"No, eighty, and not a cent more."
"When will you take the stand?"
"This afternoon, and I'll pay fifty dollars now."
"All right, you can have it," replied Maxwell.
A bill of sale was drawn up, and Nelson paid the fifty dollars on account. Then he went off for lunch; first, however, taking an account of the stock on hand.
"What you take in from now on is mine," he said.
"All right, you shall have it," replied the old stand-keeper.