How d'ye say ?" "Wal, raily, I can't do that," said the trader.

"I'm a thinkin that every man'll have to hang on his own hook, in them ar quarters." "Rather hard on a fellow that pays extra on religion, and can't trade with it in the state where he wants it most, an't it, now ?" said the young man, who had been making out a roll of bills while he was speaking.

"There, count your money, old boy!" he added, as he handed the roll to the trader.
"All right," said Haley, his face beaming with delight; and pulling out an old inkhorn, he proceeded to fill out a bill of sale, which, in a few moments, he handed to the young man.
"I wonder, now, if I was divided up and inventoried," said the latter as he ran over the paper, "how much I might bring.

Say so much for the shape of my head, so much for a high forehead, so much for arms, and hands, and legs, and then so much for education, learning, talent, honesty, religion! Bless me! there would be small charge on that last, I'm thinking.

But come, Eva," he said; and taking the hand of his daughter, he stepped across the boat, and carelessly putting the tip of his finger under Tom's chin, said, good-humoredly, "Look-up, Tom, and see how you like your new master." Tom looked up.