The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1885-09-17

plHct. Dut tfc yOu butS huOhp thD
title, John2 Don't for PHYS sake let
us buy ranch to which there Is not
That's just What told Mr.. Blake.
the man that ownes it. told him that
II there was anything at all wrong with
the title wouldn't touch II with a ten
foot pole, but he says it's all right. an
he is to get an abstract of II from the
recorders Office. The place has never
had but two or three owners, an it's
clear outside of the land grant, so il
there's no mortgages onto 1t don't
see how there can be any danger, an
OF course the abstract will show.
II almost wish you had told him we
would take it. I'm afraid somebody
else will step in and get it first, there
are SO many looking for places now.
When dd.you tell him you would give
him an answerp"
"He is TO come over tomorrow and
look at the things we have to trade. II
we kin agree, then he is to get the alb
stract, an il that Is all right, it's a
trade. wish you could see the place,
mother, before we decide about IL. but
| don't see how you kin, unless we take
Johnny over TO Ritchie's and leave him
while you go an take q look at it.
''What do you say, Johnny Will you
stay at Mr. Ritchie's while mother goes
with me to see the new placer"
"Won't the water and mud rise clear
over us and bury usP" asked tho boy.
In his weak little voice.
"0h. no" replied his father, "Mr
Ritchie's house is higher up than ours,
you know. There is not bit OF
DANGER
Then I'll stay"
But Mrs. Parsons did not wish TO 60
10 see the place.
1T would be hard days ride, she
said, .iifty miles there and back and
we would have to go on horseback,
suppose, for il must be awful slow get
ting along with wagon. now; and be.
sides Il would make no difference any
way. II you think we can make a
living on It we had best take 1t, for we
can't stay here many days longer. We
have no other place TO go to, and 1t will
not be easy to find places that we can
trade for"
And so they talked on while the tea
was made and drank. Then they lay
down, but 1t was almost day before
sleep came TO either of them.
About noon the next day MIR. Blake
eRHio as he had promised.
he was man. Of medium size and
pretty well built. He had red face
and large mouth, and appeared about
fifty years Of age.
Certainly not handsome man, he
was yet not noticeably homely. In
fact there was nothing especially no.
tieeable about him in any way. To all
appearances he was an ordinary kind
OF man, who had doubtless mined
some; been farmer back In the States,
perhaps, and at some period in his life
had probably kept hotel in a country
town, or engaged in some other occu-
patton which had given him little
more the air Of man OF business, and
little less that of a day laborer.
At dinner. of which he was invited
to partake, he asked blessing. As
they ate he commended the cooking;
spoke Of the great loss which his host
had sustained from the destruction OF
his ranch by the overflow, and con-
demned in strong terms the outrage
upon the rights of so good citizens as
those ut whose table he sat
Then he passed on to description
OF his own ranch, which he wished tc
sell.
1t was we'll up In the hills, he said,
but II was a fine place for fruit and
was out of danger from the overflow
1 Ill loI 10 10 n vol hle
property was the cultivation and cart
which Mr.. Parsons knew so well how
to give 1t.
He offered it for sale cheap because
he was going back East, and wanted tc
clear everything up before he went, and
get what he had together.
He would prefer to sell for cash, bu
II they could not do that, he woult
take pair of horses aud any othel
stock they might have TO turn ont AnC
if he could not dispose OF them readily
in the neighborhood, would drive then
TO Sacramento. on his way to New
York, and sell them there.
After dinner he went out in company
with Mr.. Parsons. and looked at tn,
different animals aud the things which
the now nearly impoverished family has
10 otter. He readily agreed 10 take ont
pair of horses and a wagon and the tol
carriage, also three COWS. But thi
still left difference which he proposet
should be made up by note to b
signed by Mr. Parsons and couple o
his neighbors.
To this Mr.. Parsons would not con
sent. He doubted if any one woul,
sign note with him now, and he coult
not bear to think of asking and beinl
refused, and preferred giving mort
gage ON the place which he was to ge
Of Mr.. Blake.
Finally twas agreed to pay him tn
fifty dollars in bank. and in addi
ton to the other articles named. b
turn him out the six head Of fat hogs ii
the pen and certain articles of house
hold furniture, the most valuable il
their possession, but for which ther
would not be room in the shanty +
which they were going, and so the bar
gain was made.
The Parsons were to retain possession
Of all the property until they had move
on to the new place; then to. put th
goods and animals at the disposal Q
Mr.. Blake and receive the deed.
fTo BE CoNTlNUED.l
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