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
