to dispute him.

"I s'pose you're right, Elihu," he said; "but it's hard on me."

"Yes, neighbor, it's hard on you, that's a fact. What was she wuth?"

"I wouldn't have taken forty dollars for her yesterday."

"Forty dollars is a good sum."

"It is to me. I haven't got five dollars in the world outside of
my farm."

"I wish I could help you, neighbor Walton, but I'm a poor man
myself."

"I know you are, Elihu. Somehow it doesn't seem fair that my only
cow should be taken, when Squire Green has got ten, and they're all
alive and well. If all his cows should die, he could buy as many
more and not feel the loss."

"Squire Green's a close man."

"He's mean enough, if he is rich."

"Sometimes the richest are the meanest."

"In his case it is true."

"He could give you a cow just as well as not. If I was as rich as