Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-11-05

MUM for sheep. BY hockey! Ill bet
clip more wool'n he does next season.
Because you've got more sheep sug'
gested Nancy. But wait and see. The
new breed which he has procured Is n very
valuable ene.' WH eE
BAH Think what il cost him fifty
| dollars for pair on 'em y H
And added Nancy, he sold two Of his
spring lambs to Mr.. Thompson for eighty
| dollars o. r.
Cit eouti
Prudence told me so. John Deepwater
saw so many fiattering accounts OF those
! sheep in his paper that he knew il would
be safe to invest .e
TITUS referred again to the report. N.
Hello! I'm blessed IL Polly DOwner
hasn't got the first premium for cheese
five dollarsp
Yes said Nancy. she was telling me
about her cheeses. She found out to make
them in her paper. l tell We, Titus, it's a
good thing to have good newspaper. 1
wish you'd
Bah Don't talk to meu And Titus
threw down the Report, and retired from
the kitchen in disgust.
The winter passed; and the time for
strengthening came. Titus Closely shear
ed one hundred and fifty sheep and OBJ
tanned. therefrom not quite six hundred
pounds of wool. Being lees than an avs
erage of four pounds to the sheep.
Titus, didn't / tell you that neighbor
Deepwateris sheep would prove by far the
most profitable? 1t costs no more to. keep
one of his splendid animals than to keep
one of ours. And then his lambs are
heavier; and his mutton is"
stop yer CAB, Nance! / know what
ye're pitchin at: It's one o. them 'tsrnal
papers! Let John Deepwater go it, il he
wants to. I've got more wool'n he has,
And you wintered more than twice as
many sheep as he did.
'Shet up! will ye?
Nancy was silent, but the end was not
yet.
After the haying had been done, Mr..
Deepwater and his wife called over and
took tea, and spent the evening with Titus
and Nancy.
In the course of conversation Prudence
told to Nancy many new things which
she had learned of household mysteries,
while Mr.. Deepwater talked to his host of
the great improvements which were being
made in agriculture. And Titus was in
terested in spite of himself, though he
tried to appear otherwise.
by the way, Titus" said John Deepwa-
ter late in the evening, "when you get
ready to sell your wool, think can re-
commend you to good Market
much obleeged, John but I've sold.n
"Sold? TO whom ?n
''ro Saddler q Ryder, of Brinkton.u
did they come for it?p
Yes. Old Saddler came HIMSELF
What did he pay you?"
Thirty cents.n
"Thirty-cents! Thirty cents
pound? ~
Eyes"
Goodness mercy, John! You didn't
sell your whole clip at that price ?"
"Ye-e-s. Why ?''
WIN? WILDWOOD like YOURS is worth
forty-five cents; and L was authorized by
Mr.. Fairman to offer you that price for
your clip. You must have had over five
hundred pounds?"
YES" said Titus, gaspingly, ~ sold five
hundred and seventy"
"But-didn't you know that wool had
risen in value?n
No. Mr.. Saddler said thirty cents was
all twas worth. e- -.. "a.
Mr.. Saddler deceived you But you
should have watched the market reports.
Didn't you notice them in the paper?'
I-l-don't take no paper
Il declare, Titus, am sorry for you. But
it can't be helped now
Mr.. Deepwater saw how badly his friend
was feeling, and he said no more.
When the company had gone, Titus
Closely took down the old slate from its
peg by the side of the looking-glass, and
began to cipher. The difference between
thirty and forty-five was fifteen and fif.
teen multiplied by i've hundred and seven
ty gave product of eighty-fve dollars and
fifty cents!
On the following morning Titus Closely
went to the village, and subscribed for two
papers-oue for himself, and one for his
wife; and in time he came to regard the
newspaper as one of the greatest insttu-
lions of the age.-N Y. Ledger.