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 school-room sixty years ago, where boys were sometimes obliged, for punishment, to sit on nothing against the door. I have heard the extreme discontent in the voice of another grouty, grasping farmer when it became evident to him that he would be obliged to give up a horse that had been stolen before he bought him. But here I must quote, as nearly correctly as I can without the book:

And sold him to this Mr. Badger' (said Kit) 'for seventy dollars.'

Seventy gim-cracks!' exclaimed Uncle Gray, aghast. 'I should think any fool might know he's worth more than that.'

"He was thinking of Brunlow, but Eli applied the remark to himself.

I did know it,' he growled. 'That's why I bought him. And mighty glad I am now I didn't pay more.'

Sartin!' replied Uncle Gray; 'but didn't it occur to you 't no honest man