Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-07-14

tree, named in describing boundary, is
neutral properly. as | understand it. 1t
seems to kinder belong to both parties,
and mustn't be cut or tempered with by
either. But what causes the difficulty
is this: as luck would have it, the old
original tree referred to in the deed was
struck by lightning two and twenty
years ago, more or less, and blew over
and rotted away, and the new shoot that
came up to take its place is leetle to
one side, but we can't make out exactly
how much or which way on account of
the brook having changed its bed and
washed away the land, caved it in, and
so forth; so there is quite piece that
may be mine and may be his. Well, it
is nothing one way or another. 'Tisn't
worth the breath I've spent telling it
over to either of us, seeing rs how we've
both more land than we can take care
of. AID if it was, what then? Why.
we would do twice rs much for each
other any day"
"True," replied Mrs. Vantage, draw
ing out her thread from the soft wooden
roll and running it back on the spindle
with as stately step as thought she had
been receiving at Presidential leevee
'But friendship is one thing, and bust
ness is another. | think in the end
strict justice is the truest generosity. and
we ought not 10 leave things at hap
hazard that may cause difference be-
tween those who come after us"
"That is so,n assented her husband, |
who could see through 4 milestone after |
his wife had made hole in il for him. |
s' YnI never can calculate on red-head- /
ed stock any how. | don't want bet
ter man to neighbor with than Parsip-
pany, but | conceit whether or no his |
won't turn out to favor the
Railway side of the house. And Grand
sir Railway had the name of being as
nigging as any man in the colonies
"I'll tell you what it is, neighbor
said he, the next time they
CHANGED to meet, s.we are good friends,
and we'd better settle that boundary
matter in our time, and not leave it an
open question for nobody knows who to
about when we are dead and
sone.n
''Just what | was thinking myself.
! GU and | should never have any trouble.
1ut somebody might; you can't tell, and
1 may save feelings if we take ii to the
aw and settle il up in workmanlike
So this was the reason of the neigh |
,orly lawsuit a century ago. I
1t was early in June. and Farmer t
Vantage, in a homespun suit of tow |
10th, was hoeing potatoes out and in
lmong the burnt stumps in the :. home l
Of" with two young Wantages hoeing {
heir rows and looking for meadow 7
nice alittle behind. '
"Halloo, What YOU about there? q
DON'T you know our case comes on to- a
iay?' called Farmer parsippany, from /
he back of sorrel horse cushioned by d
wo well filled meal bags i.
Farmer Vantage looked up in sur b
rise, with a wrinkle of annoyance h
howing in his forehead as he pushed |.
ack his hat and came forward with his C
oe in the air o
swell, / declare, As sure as taxes, o
clean forgot this was the day" said o
e. "Tell you what. No use in both Il
{ us spending the time I'm all be- r
with my spring work nothing h
ut steer-team to help me along he N
ontinued. glancing with fatherly pride u
the two youngsters who were making il
Ire they had found mouse's nest at is
lst. You understand the case as well b
do, so supposing you take my pa W
ers, the deed and what not, and do the K
hole business. 1t will be great ac- m
'mmodation, and I'll try to do as much CT
II yoa sometime"
"Just so" returned Farmer Parsip-
any, letting down his horses head to
ed on the strip of grass that ran be-
Teen the bridle-path and the unfenced 4,
81 took along couple of II,
lshels of rye, and while it is being a.