"Bless your heart, yes! I'd a sight rather have all that good pork an' potatoes than any o' your wild meat," said Mrs. Price, smiling with prosperity. "You see, now, 'Liza Jane she's given in. She didn't re'lly know but 'twas all talk of 'Bijah 'bout that dog's bein' wuth fifty dollars. She says she can't cope with a huntin' dog same's he could, an' she's given me the money you an' John York sent over this mornin'; an' I didn't know but what you'd lend me another half a dollar, so I could both go to Dipford Centre an' return, an' see if I couldn't make a sale o' Tiger right over there where they all know about him. It's right in the coon season; now's my time, ain't it?"
"Well, gettin' a little late," said Isaac, shaking with laughter as he took the desired sum of money out of his pocket. "He seems to be a clever dog round the house."
"I don't know's I want to harbor him all winter," answered the excursionist frankly, striking into a good traveling gait as she started off toward the railroad station.
NOTES
Dipford:—The New England town in which the scenes of some of Miss Jewett's stories are laid.
master hot:—In the New England dialect, master is used in the sense of very or extremely.
bosom-pin:—Mourning pins of jet or black enamel were much worn in times past.
'suage:—Assuage, meaning to soften or decrease.
selectman:—One of a board chosen in New England towns to transact the business of the community.
scattereth nor yet increaseth:—See Proverbs, 11:24.