That kinda winds up the transaction, fur's I kin see." "I wonder if another dollar--" But Applehead interrupted him.

"Another dollar might git him warmed up so's he'd shake his danged head twicet instid uh once't," he asserted pessimistically, "but that's all you'd git outa him.

That thar buck ain't TALKIN' today.

Yuh better come an' eat 'n' rest yer laigs.

If he talked, he'd lie.