Land with a Character.

Southland Times, Issue 9799, 10 April 1888, Page 4

Land with a Character.

♦■ • 1 Do you want to leU your farm ? was aiked by a visitor of au old Yankee farmer. ' wouldn't mind it.' • Healthful neighbourhood i • Ain't nobody ever died here yit. Job Greeder'a son died some time ago in Texas, *n' they fotched him home to bury him, an 1 dinged if he didn't get well befoie they got through the funeral sermoi..' 'It must be healthful.' ' That's what it is. Sec tkat feller goiD, 'lorg yonder ?' ' Yes. « Walks pretty well, doii't he ?' ' First rate. • Wall, when that feller come here, he bad only one leg., ' You don't mean it 1 ' Yea I do. Only had one leg when he csme here but putty soon another one commenced ie grow our.' ' Grew right on 'he stump of th« old one— eh V ' No. sir ; neverjhad a stump Was born with only one l>g. Do you know that thar ain't a man in this country thai draws a pension from the Government? •No, Is that a fact V 'A flit-footed fack Their arms an' lej* have grown out till th< Government has refused to give 'em pensioos. ' Good fruit country V ' Well, tolerable ; bat it ain't very good fur apples, fur the young trees grow jo bigh that the young apples die of cnld. See that loner row of big treeß over yonder V ' Yea.' ' When I camt here they had just been set out. They weic telegraph poles at first, but shortly after they wai put out, although they were dead when they were put down, they commenced growin', an' we je it kad to take i he wires off Vm and let e:n rip. Wonderful conn ry. ain'tit l» • Yes, B/ the way, what will you ;ake for your plac". ?' ' I'll sell it to you cheap, con?iderin' the fack that they air about to lay off » town oa ir. You may have ray fifty acres for a hundred dollar*.' 1 ' That's certainly cheap.' 1 Reckon it \». What do you say ?' 'It is suspiciously cheap. Why are you so anxious to sell V ' Well, as 1 tell you, they air goin 1 to build a town here, an' I don't want no noise an' confusion about me. What do you say?' ' Don't believe I want to buy.' 'Say, take it for fifty dollar?. I can't stand noise, recollect.' ' No, 1 don't care to invest.' Hjsv would twftity-fbed>;l>-u« do yon 'I 'Not v. ry w-.11., ' What *ould you say to iif uen djii;j.-g !' ' No, I'm obliged to you.' ' Wall, git outer here, now— git. 1 Yon would paralyse any b«m the country ever *&w. Bill,' calling hie eon, 'fetefc my gun out here, an If this feller's in gigkt ihree minits from now I'll take a crack at him. Git i'