Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-02-25
ALL OWING TO THE SOIL
John Moss6Ack, or wAY6AcK,
TELLS SOME TALL STORIES.

-Four Logs Grew Into o Frame House I'm
One Night and Everything Else Kept
Pace-A Flock of sheep Grew So sys-
seriously That John Had 90 Leave.
''Why. hello, john said man who
ehanced TO be passing along the road to
John Mosshack, Of Wayhack, whom he
met, chow came You in this section Of
the country The last | heard you was
In Aroostook county. Me-, and here
find you way down here. what caused
you 70 leave that place? hear that it Is
the garden Of Maine"
.Well. You see, mister, that it got too
healthy for me up there. and / had to
leave"
"Too healthyi How do you make that
cut? I did not suppose that you could
find place that was too healthy to live
i'm
well, yer see, mister. at 1t is this
way, although don't hardly like ter tell
yer, for fear at yer viii think at I'm a
| lynn; but I'll risk ii anyway, and tell yer
few facts, and then yer'll diskiver wo's
mean by bein' too healthy.
NOT BUILT WITH HANDS.
"W'en fnst went up there tuck mp
farm on w'ot / 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 Ind any stones
for nnderpinin' / thought at | would
build my house, which was a log one,
on tn ground, hoping that it would
stand until | could build better one.
II was pretty late when / got at work,
and only got the four bottom logs to-
gether when had ter quit. an | had ter
60 about mile ter tn house whore /
was boardin' until could get my house
ready ter move into. Tn mex mornin'
/ started ter go ter my work an w'ot
was my surprise ter find tn four logs at
/ 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
ciapboarded and ready to move into.
mentioned the fact ter my host, an he
said that was nothin'; at tn soil alters
did that when it was fust broke, but that
I'd get used ter il arter while.
Il sent for my family the next day,
which consisted Of my wife an "a l0-yeaT-
old boy, an in about two weeks they
come mp 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 so. Wen
he went away he was about the size q
any l0-year-old boy, and wen he come
back he was plump six foot tall and
weighed 225 pounds.
"W'en il come time ter shoot deer my
hired man started out ter see if he
couldn't get one. Well. sir, he started
drove and drew 'em out inter one o. my
fields and shot three of 'em, an every
one of EN- fell on piece of broke up at
we had plowed that week, an as no
couldn't get EN- ter the house alone he
came for help, an my son and | to-
gether with warden who had just got
there ter my house started back ter get
, them. an sir, yon may believe it or not,
but wen we got there we found that
them three deer had grown into three
4
for the two moose which he had, meren
, the law allowed him.
GROWTH OF RAILROADS AND MORTGAGES.
Are they goin' to build that railroad,
did you say2 No. | don't think they
will, for jest as soon as tho sleepers strike
/ the sile the blamed things would grow
: until the whole country would be COW
cred with railroads member one Of
, my neighbors held n mortgage on one Of
the farms an he happened to lose it,
: and didn't find it for two days. an when
he did find it it had grown until 1t had
given him a mortgage of 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 nice
farrnin' country; all yer have ter do is
ter plant yer crops aud they will grow
ter beat thunder. Why | have known
men to 60 there without a cent anu clear
5000, 900 the first year all often potatoes.
!, an they didn't have only one potato 10
| start with, and that being small one
! weighed only GOO pounds
: Everybody would be rich If the debts
7 didn't grow equally with the profits
: member one man went ter se1iin' ma.
8 chinery, an he didn't pay mp for year
3 an by that time the debts had grown SC
. big that he never has been able ter pay
. Ii since.
: "Wot made me leaves Well. I'll tell
r yer. | turned my flock o sheep ont one
night, and the next mornin' they had
grown 30 'at | had bout fifty morn'n
: turned ont tn night afore, and one o
: my neighbors he'd lost his whole flock
a which, strange TO say. had drowned. as
1 he never found 'em, but he said that
Q got 'em. and he made it so nncomfort.
. 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
rs my time for leaving the state expires
then. Bangor News.