Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-01-31
ALL OWING 10 THE SOIL


JOHN MosssAck, or wAYsAck,
TELLS GONE TALL sToHes
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tsriersly That yeha Hsa = Esavss
.why. hello, John, said : man who
chanced to be passing along the road -
John Moesback, 81 Wayback, whom -
met, "how came you in this secfiun q
the country The last / heard you Va
In Aroostook county, Me-, and herU
ind you way down here; what cauaed
you to leave that place? / hear that Il i
the garden Of Maine. !"
Well, you zee. mister, that II got To-
ihealthy for me up there, and had q
| leave.
s.Too he4lthyi How do You maxi that
outs ! did not SUPPOSE that you cou1d
ind place that was TOO healthy 70 Hvo
IN
well, yer rec, mister, IT It Il this
way, although don't hardly like ~ tsll
yer, for fear at yer will think ~ I'm
lynn; but I'll risk It anyway, and te1l ysr
: few facts, and then yer'n dialiv9 WY
mean BY bein' too healthy.
i NOT BUILT WITH HANDS.
Wen fust went up there tuck -
| ) farm On w'ot supposed ~ xboat
~ richest soi1 III the county, nj found
arter while that my jsdgment VA noe
4 lar out O TIL way. Tn fust day ~ /
got there looked around and salected
III spot where was goins 70 bui1d my
house, and ~ I couldn't end any stones
| for underpinin' thought ct would
build my house, which was lcG one,
on tn ground, hoping that II would
stand until could build better ons.
It was pretty late when got It work,
and ! only got the four bottom 1oRs TO-
igether when had ter omit, an had ter
go about mile ter tn house where
was boardin' until could get my house
ready ter move into. TIL mex mornin'
Istarted ter go ter my work, an w'ot
|, was my surprise ter find tn four logs 1t
had laid for tn foundation fer my
house had taken root an grown into :
! two story frame house, with ell and ont
! buildings attached, all shingisd and
clapboarded and ready to move into. /
mentioned the fact ter my host. an he
; said that was nothin'; at tn soil al1ers
} did that when it was fust broke, but that
I'd get used ter it AFTER while.
II sent for my family the next day,
! which consisted Of my wife an 10-ysar-
old boy, an in about two weeks they
come up there, an all went well until I
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 so. Wen
, he went away he was about the size q
, any 1O-year-old boy, and wen he come
. back he was plump six foot tall and
, weighed 225 pounds
"W'en it come time ter shoot deer my
, hired man started out ter see if he
! couldn't get one. Well, sir, he started q
drove and drew 'em out inter one o. my
, fields and shot three of 'em, an every
one of 'em fell on piece of broke up at
we had plowed that week, an as he
couldn't get 'em ter the house alone he
came for help, an my son and l to-
gether with a warden who had Just got
there ter my house started back ter get
: them. an sir, you may believe it or not,
! but wen we got there we found that
them three deer had grown into three
y moose, an it cost that man 800 apiece
for the two moose which he had, more'n
, the law allowed him.
GROWTH OF RAILROADS AND MORTGAGES
1 "Are they goin' to build that railroad,
: did you says No, / don't think they
: will, for jest as soon as the sleepers strike
( the sile the blamed things would grow
2 until the whole country would be COW
cred with railroads. I member one Of
' my neighbors held mortgage on one of
!. the farms an he happened to lose it,
" and didn't find it for two days, an when
J. he did find it it had grown until it had
given him mortgage of a whole town
: ship, and they sent him down the river
. for forgery, even it was all the falt o.
! the sile.
: Oh, yesl Aroostook county is nics
: farmin' country: all yer have ter do is
ter plant yer crops and they will grow
ter beat thunder. Why I have known
men to go there without a cent and clear
$500, 900 the first year all often potatoes,
}, an they didn't have only one potato to
It start with, and that being small one
J. weighed only 900 pounds.
= Everybody would be rich if the debts
y didn't grow equally with the profits
member one man went ter sellin' ma
$ chinery, an he didn't pay up for year,
5 an by that time the debts had grown SO
n big that he never has been able ter pay
Is it since.
= "Wot made me leave? Well, I'll tell
r yer. turned my flock o. sheep out one
s. night, and the next mornin' they had
k grown SO at l had bout fifty morn'n
= turned out tn night afore, and one o
: my neighbors he'd lost his whole flock,
n which, strange to say, had drowned, as
d he never found 'em, but he said that
q got 'em, and he made it so uncomfort-
70 able for me that had ter leave. Well,
, good day. mister, I've got ter leave, as
got ter strike the next town afore night,
as my time for leaving the state expires
then. "-Bangor News.