“Two dollars and eighty cents is all the Lovell bull-dog ought to sell for,” I said: “in fact $2.75 is Reachum's price on them, but we are selling F.& W. goods, and can easily get 5 to 10 cents more for them.”
“Will you sell me some of Lovell's at $2.75?”
“I would if I had them, but we don't carry them. I'll make you the F. & W. at $2.80, and I shall catch thunder for doing that. But I want to sell you.”
“To be sure; to be sure!”
He said this as a man might humor a child, and as if he fully understood all that was in my mind.
“Tom, do we need any bull-dogs?”
“No, sir; got 50 on the way from Reachum at $2.70.”