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could not say exactly, but as soon as they would break 

 root he could have the plant for $100. It was agreed, 

 but he was so impatient to get it that two or three 

 times a week he was after me to know when I would 

 send it to him. A few days later he came again, when 

 I just cut two of the three ; then he said, I hope you 

 will send it to me to-day. No ! there is one more to 

 cut ; in a few days you will have it. He went grum- 

 bling that I wanted the money and keep the plant. 

 I did not hear him, but my phanerogyne (wife) 

 heard him, and when he was gone she told me, you 

 have better send it to him; he is like a child. I 

 know he is like a child, yet, I can not to keep him 

 from crying give that offset which is worth at least $25> 

 and more. Well, she said, he is a good fellow, a good 

 customer, he always pays you what you ask him; you can 

 afford to let him have it as it is, and she used a rather 

 homely expression, but at the same time very ex- 

 pressive incisive. She said, you " you may give 

 him the young calf, you have charged him enough for 

 the cow" You will soon see that I had not charged too 

 much for the cow, and to give the calf into the bar- 

 gain ; in less than two or three weeks he sold the CALF 

 for $50 to a Florist in Albany, who, two weeks later 

 sold it to Mrs. Morgan of New York, for $100. One 

 year later the man who had bought my cow plant, sold 

 it by auction in New York for $225, to the same man 



