That's five hundred a month, or six thousand a year.
Now say that's five per cent., because it's easier to count, it represents the interest on a capital value of one hundred an' twenty thousand-dollars.

Then we'll suppose expenses and salary for me is twenty thousand.

That leaves the dog worth a hundred thousand.

Just to be fair, cut it in half--a fifty-thousand dog.

And you're offerin' a thousand for him." "I suppose you think he'll last for ever, like so much land'," Del Mar smiled quietly.
Daughtry saw the point instantly.
"Give 'm five years of work--that's thirty thousand.