The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-26
ALL OWING TO THE SOIL.
JOHN MOSSBACk, OF wAY6Ack,
TELLS SOME TALL STORIES.
Four Logs Grew Into Frame House in
One Night and Everything Else Kept
Pace-A Flock of Sheep Grew So Ays-
seriously That John Had to Eeave-

One Night and Everything Else Kept
Pace-A Flock of sheep Grew So Nys-
teriously That John Had to Geave-
why. hello, john said man who
CHANGED TO be passing along the road 70
John Mossback. of Wayback, whom he
met, how came you in this section OF
the country? The last | heard you was
in Aroostook county, Ne, and here |
find YOU way down here; what caused
you to leave that place: / hear that 1t IS
the garden of Maine"
''Well. you see. mister, that it got too
healthy for me up there. and | had To
leave
"Too healthy, How do you mako that
out? l did not suppose that you could
find place that was too healthy TO live
in"
We'll, yer see, mister, at it is this
way, although don't hardly like ter tell
yer. for fear at yer win think at I'm
lynn; but I'll risk it anyway, and tell yer
few facts, and thenSer'll diskiver wo's
mean by bein' too healthy.
NOT BUILT WITH HANDS.
wen fust went up there | tuck up
a farm on w'ot l supposed was about
tn richest soil in the county, and | found
arter while that my Judgment was not
far out O. tn way. TIL fust day at
got there looked around and selected
tn spot where was goin' to build my
house. and as couldn't find any stones
for underpinin' l thought at | would
build my house, which was log one,
on tn ground, hoping that it would
stand until / could build better one.
1t was pretty late when | got at work,
and only got the four bottom logs to-
gether when | had ter quit, an had ter
go about mile ter tn house where /
was boardin' until could get my house
ready ter move into. TIL mex mornin
started ter go ter my work. an w'ot
was my surprise ter find til four logs at
I had laid for tn foundation fer my
house had taken root an grown into a
two story frame house, with ell and out
buildings attached. all shingled and
clapboarded and ready to move into. l
mentioned the fact ter my host. an he
said that was nothin'; at tn soil alters
did that when il was fust broke, but that
I'd get used ter it arter while.
Il sent for my family the next day
which consisted of my wife an 10year-
did boy, an in about two weeks they
come up there. an all went well until !
set my boy ter harrowin'; he bein kind
o lazy. lay down and went to sleep on
tn fresh grown. In about two hours he
come Up ter tn house an we didn't know
him. Grown? Well, / guess 50. Wen
he went away he was about the size O
any 10-year-old boy. and wen he come
back ne was plump six foot tall and
weighed 225 pounds.
Nv EN- il come time ter shoot deer my
hired man started out ter see II he
couldn't get one. Well, sir, be started a
drove and drew EN- out inter one O my
fields and shot three Of en-, an every
one of EN- fell on piece OF broke mp 'at
we had pl0wed that week, All ~ he
couldn't get EN- ter the house alone he
came for help. an my son aud | to-
gether with warden who had just got
there ter my house started back ter get
/ them. an sir. you may believe 1t or not.
but wen we got there we found that
them three deer had grown into three
moose. an it cost that man 800 apiece
+ for the two moose which be had, more n
/ the law allowed him.
/ GROWTH OF RAILROADS AND N0KTGAoEs.
Are they goin' TO build that railroad.
| did you say; No. don't think they
| will. for jest as soon as the sleepers strike
| the sile the blamed things would grow
/ until the whole country wOuld be GOV
I cred with railroads. ! member one o.
! nv neighbors held a mortgage on one Of
+ the farms an he happened 70 lose It
/ and didn't find il for two days, an wheI
/ he did find il it had grown until IL had
/ given him mortgage Of a whole town
+ ship. and they sent him down the riye'
/ for forgery, even il was al the falt o
] the size.
| On. yes, Aroost0ok county IL nioc
/ faTmin' country; al yer have ter DO i
ter plant yer crops and they viii grow
ter beat thunder. Why I have knowr
/ Enen TO go there without cent and clszi
/ 500 900 the first year al often potatoes
! an they didn't have only one potato q
/ start with, and that being . small Oh
+ weighed only coo pounds.
Everybody woald be rieh II the deot'
didn't grow equally with the profts-
member ore man Esnt ter sellin' ma
chinery. an be dida'r pay up for year
an by iha. time the debts had gro'Tn *
I big that be never has been abe ter pa
I il since.
"Wo: made ne Ieavs5 Wal. I'll tel
yer. / turned my fock o sneep out ca
night, and the next mornin' they hsG
grown 50 a. I had bout fifty n.o-n'n
! turned out IA night afore, AID osa 9
nv neighbors bed los: his whole focx
which. strange 70 say, had drowned. =.
he nersr fouu4 'e.n, be; be said that
got EN-. and be made u 30 E1comsort
abIe fer ne that lad ter lszSe- Wei
good DAY. mister, Fvs got tsr leave. as
got ter strike Ire next town zfo.e night
as nv tssoe fer leaving the sta;s expire.