you ought to, put it down for twenty dollars more--seeing that, if I
can't trade for one somehow, I shall have to give something like
that for another.

"And now, lawyer, there's one thing--I don't like to be in the reach
of them 'ere regilators, and guess 'twouldn't be altogether the
wisest to stop short of fifteen miles to-night: so, therefore, you
see, it won't be in my way, no how, to let you have your nag, which
is a main fine one, and goes slick as a whistle--pretty much as if
he and the wagon was made for one another; but this, I guess, will
be no difference to you, seeing that you can pay yourself his vally
out of the damages. I'm willing to allow you one hundred dollars for
him, though he a'n't worth so much, no how; and the balance of the
money you can send to me, or my brother, in the town of Meriden, in
the state of Connecticut. So no more, dear lawyer, at this writing,
from

"Your very humble sarvant
"to command, &c."

The dismay of the attorney was only exceeded by the chagrin with which
he perceived his exposure, and anticipated the odium in consequence. He
leaped about the hall, among the company, in a restless paroxysm--now
denouncing the pedler, now deprecating their dissatisfaction at finding
out the double game which he had been playing. The trick of the runaway
almost gave him a degree of favor in their eyes, which did not find much
diminution when Pippin, rushing forth from the apartment, encountered a
new trial in the horse left him by the pedler; the miserable beast being
completely ruined, unable to move a step, and more dead than alive.