You been a right good customer, treating all your little friends so grand, so I tell you straight--you take that fine bird for forty-eight cents.

Not to many would I come down, but to you--yes." Wilbur Cowan, overcome, mumbled his thanks.

He was alone at the counter now, Merle having joined the withdrawn courtiers.
"I'm a fair trader," said Solly Gumble.

"I can take--I give.

Here now!" And amazingly he extended to the penniless wreck a large and golden orange, perhaps one of the largest oranges ever grown.
The recipient was again overcome.