The bill of
particulars I will send you by post. In the meanwhile, you may say,
having something to go upon, that the whole comes to five hundred
and fifty dollars or thereabouts, for, with a little calculation and
figering, I guess it won't be hard to bring it up to that. This
don't count the vally of the cart, for, as I made it myself, it
didn't cost me much; but, if you put it in the bill, which I guess
you ought to, put it down for twenty dollars more--seeing that, if I
can't trade for one somehow, I shall have to give something like
that for another.
"And now, lawyer, there's one thing--I don't like to be in the reach
of them 'ere regilators, and guess 'twouldn't be altogether the
wisest to stop short of fifteen miles to-night: so, therefore, you
see, it won't be in my way, no how, to let you have your nag, which
is a main fine one, and goes slick as a whistle--pretty much as if
he and the wagon was made for one another; but this, I guess, will
be no difference to you, seeing that you can pay yourself his vally
out of the damages.
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