'Hossback ?' I says.

'Why, of course,' she says.

'_No_, ma'am,' I says, 'not when I c'n raise the money to pay my _fine_' She looked kind o' puzzled at that," remarked David, "but I see the other girl look at her an' give a kind of quiet laugh." "'Can I see him ?' says Miss Claricy.

'Cert'nly,' I says, an' went an' brought him out.

'Oh!' she says to her sister, 'ain't he a beauty?
C'n I try him ?' she says to me.