108 ANDREWS AND HIS MASTER 



get somebody you know to order a load, and 

 only weigh 'em, you'll find our master out ; 

 for he's a big fool to think he can serve a 

 man out that way for doing only a little for 

 himself what he makes us do every day for 

 him, when he thinks he won't be caught." 

 " Now," said I, " don't make a fool of me." 

 " Never fear," said he; " it's all right." The 

 jobbing man that bought cows and things for 

 the squire lived close by; and I went to him 

 and put him up to taking the order over, 

 and to make sure and get the load I'd told 

 him of; and so he did, for next morning in 

 came the coals. When the carter asked him 

 where he was to put 'em, " In my scales," 

 says he, " first" (and he hooked up his calf- 

 scales), " and then up in that corner." The 

 carter was master's man all over, and tried to 

 get off this; but these dealing-cliaps, what 

 with going to fairs and bargaining, why 

 there's nobody a match for them, with the 

 tongue ; and so weigh 'em he must, and 

 there was pretty well two cwt. short. " 111 

 fetch the rest up," says the carter. " Yery 

 well," says the dealer ; and when he'd shut 

 the gates, he said to me, who was waiting 

 out of sight, " We'll fetch him up ; and now 



