human
And what did you say to make 'em buy?
gpt
Well, mother, I mostly didn't say anything. I didn't know what to say, and I couldn't say it right, neither, and so I just watched, and if they so much as turned their eyes on a piece, I got it out of the pile and showed it to 'em. I just wished with all my might to sell to 'em, and I sold to 'em.
human
Sure and if you couldn't do no better, that was good enough, so 'twas, was her comment.
gpt
You'll larn. But didn't nobody say nothin' to you?
human
They did, mother, of course.
gpt
And who was they that spoke to you and what about?
human
Well, mother, there was old Mrs. Barter, for one. She's awful stingy. I've seen her more than once in the groceries. Always a-wantin' everything a little lower, and grumblin' because the quality wasn't good. Them grocers' clerks mostly hates her, I believe. And they don't want to wait on her, none of 'em. 'Twas her, I'm told, washed up two or three of them wooden butter dishes and took 'em up and wanted to sell 'em back to them she got her butter from.
gpt
Ah!
human
And she was to buy of you to-day, was she?
gpt
Yes, mother.
human
And did she buy anything?
gpt
She did.
human
What was it?
gpt
A calico dress.
human
And how come she to do it?