horse trader

Suppose a horse is blind in one eye and the prudent horse trader says nothing.

"I ain't no way shore about that," said the horse-trader easily.

He looks to me like a Yankee horse-trader, who is too intimate with the devil and his ways to be at all alarmed about them.

The preceding incident leads to another, in which Lincoln himself figures as a horse-trader.

He also looked at their teeth, rolling up their lips, horse-trader fashion.