"'Do you know anybody what wants to buy a right good hoss dirt cheap?'
"'I dew,' says my man.
"'How high be you willing to go?' says the hossback chap.
"'I don't keer a darn, so's the critter's wo'th the money,' says t'other, and he gin me a sly wink.
"'Then I'll take you to a place where I know you'll be suited,' says the hossback chap.
"'Fur from here?' axes t'other.
"'Not more'n a mile at the outside,' says him on the hoss.
"'Will you jest go along, 'arn the five, and see that I ain't cheated?' says the foot feller to me, in a tone so low that t'other couldn't hear.
"I said I would; and then my man axed the man on the hoss for his keerd, which he gin him and rid away.
"While we was a-going to the place, my feller told me that his name was John Jenkins; that he'd got as much money as he keerd about having, and if he could only git a hoss to suit him, and not pay more for't than 'twas wo'th, he'd be mighty pleased.