It is great fun to be listening to people making bargains at the fair. The seller will ask more for his cattle than he expects to get and the buyer will offer less than he expects to get them for.
Then the arguing begins. The seller goes down in his price and the buyer increases his offer. If both of them agree the bargain is made. If they do not agree an on-looker usually says "Split the difference". If one agrees to that he says "Don't break the decent man's word". The buyer makes his last bid and in doing so he tells the seller hold out his hand and hits it with his own hand bidding so much and says "Take it or leave it". The seller usually takes it and when he does the buyer marks the cattle with raddle or puts a scissors mark on the hips of the cattle. Then he gives the seller a ticket. When the ticket