What is the price ?' he says.
"'Wa'al,' I says, more 'n anythin' to see what he'd say, 'what would you say he was wuth ?' An' with that he kind o' stiffened a little stiffer 'n he was before, if it could be.
"'Really,' he says, 'he-uh-uh, I haven't any idea.

I haven't seen the animal, an' I should not consider myself qual'fied to give an opinion upon his value if I had, but,' he says, 'I don't know that that makes any material diff'rence, however, because I am quite--he-uh, he-uh--in your hands--he-uh!--within limits--he-uh-uh!--within limits,' he says.
That kind o' riled me," remarked David.

"I see in a minute what was passin' in his mind.

'Wa'al,' I says, 'Mr.Verjoos, I guess the fact o' the matter is 't I'm about as much in the mud as you be in the mire--your daughter's got my hoss,' I says.

'Now you ain't dealin' with a hoss jockey,' I says, 'though I don't deny that I buy an' sell hosses, an' once in a while make money at it.