WANTED A FARM.

Otago Witness, Issue 1297, 7 October 1876, Page 21

WANTED A FARM.

A Detroit real estate agent was waited on yesterday by a tall man with a weed on hi 3 hat, who said he had the cash to pay for a farm, provided he could get one. to suit. The agent smiled him to a seat, and brought ' out his register of descriptions. He had several farms registered on his books, and he had' ho doubt thfct he could suit thewoukUbe purchaser. ,' ', The stranger remarked : •..,..• "What I want is a farm of about 300 acres." . „.,,.«., ' " I've got it," replied the dealer.' ' ■ " " I'd like about six big hills upon It.'* " Here she is — here's a,\ farm with a lake exactly in the centre." . . i , " And I want a big natural' 1 cavern in one of the" hills." ' , " Here you are. There's a cave on thla farm which .can't be beat," • , - The stranger drew a long breath, and went on : • '" •' " " I want a farm of three hundred acres, but one hundred acres must be marsh land." , , : "Here she is," was the. ready reply, "just three hundred acres in the farm, and just one' hundred in marsh, 'land. " i "I must have a waterfall 'twenty'six feet high on the farm," continued the stranger. ■ , ,• • ,'•.,„. , "Here you are. This farm has a natural waterfall of twetit-five feet and eleven inches^ I don't, suppose an inch, more op less, on a waterfall amounts to much." "Well, no,rbutl wanb a windmill ba one of the hills." < •■:.••.. t " That was put up last year;"' was the calm reply.. ,<'<", „" ' ' ', ,' ' '- It was some, time before, 'th^; stranger thought of anything else, but finally, said : " There must be a Baptist church right across the road from the' house." ■ ' * " One builfthere last summer^ slri" "It must be a brick church." ' " ' "Soifcii." • , ■ , , "Has it an organ.'* > "It has." f ■ . . "Then I can't buy the farm of you," said the stranger, rising to go., ','*lf there is anything I hate, it is a church organ, and you can see for yourself' that I would be in a state of oontinual misery; Tho farm suits me fir3t-rate,' but I can't go that organ." Just what estimate those two men placed upon each others veracity as they separated will never be known. — Detroit Free Press.