How much pork do you think I could take care of ?" "Wa'al, at the present price," said David, "I think about four thousan' barrels would give ye enough to eat fer a spell, an' mebbe leave ye a few barrels to dispose of if you should happen to strike a feller later on that wanted it wuss 'n you did." John opened his eyes a little.

"I should only have a margin of a dollar and a quarter," he said.
"Wa'al, I've got a notion that that'll carry ye," said David.

"It may go lower 'n what it is now.

I never bought anythin' yet that didn't drop some, an' I guess nobody but a fool ever did buy at the bottom more'n once; but I've had an idee for some time that it was about bottom, an' this here telegraph wouldn't 'a' ben sent if the feller that sent it didn't think so too, an' I've had some other cor'spondence with him." Mr.Harum paused and laughed a little.
"I was jest thinkin'," he continued, "of what the Irishman said about Stofford.

Never ben there, have ye?
Wa'al, it's a place eight nine mile f'm here, an' the hills 'round are so steep that when you're goin' up you c'n look right back under the buggy by jest leanin' over the edge of the dash.