The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-06-16
MS LUCKY UNCLE.
How He struck IL Kich Once by Paying s2
Bushei for <O-cent Corn.

HAMMONDSPORT, June i5.--"My uncl
over in the town OF Wayne / s'pose wa
the luckicst man that ever lived" sal
Packy Griswod to the Fairchild Hous
Circle. Everything he touched brough
| money TO his TIL but the Iuckicst strik
he ever made was when John Rogers
barn burned down with a hundred bushel
paid Rogers two dollars bushel for
although the biggest and hardest kline
or yailer corn was only worth forty cents
the best any one could do.
John Rogers had owed my uncle q
couple hundred dollars for fve years
and more. but that didn't bother John
] any, as he was one of these chaps Nno
beiive thoroughly In letting The otner iel-
to Johns to see II ne couldn't squeeze
little something out Of him. ,,
| How're you liked. john! "a u NY
uncle: srro
Expected TO have $50 to-day, sure.
said John with a twinkle IN ms eye' Duc
| when | went over TO Bill mason 10
borrow it Bill wouldn't let me nave IL.
Beats the horses how much some people
don't seem TO have coniloe and my f"hn Pa a.
But after my uncle ana JOhh hau
talked n while John saio:
Tell YOU what I'll DO. Abner." said
John. I'VE got a hundred bushel o
corn in the barn y IIl es r = pTSe yon
take the corn, ana ! II DE With 10 can
"My uncle figured up that with corn at
forty cents, 81 n bushel was toerable
high ggrs to pay foT IT, but ne ~, tnoU ue1n
and get $40 than TO never get anything,
so he said he'd take the corn and call
IL square He went 20 the barn after
came back to John feeling ugly.
Here. John said he, that's nothing
but little runty popcorn
Yes, said John, grinning. Its pop
corn. ! didn't think to say popcorn.
worth nofhin' at ell in the market
Yes said John. That's about the
MY uncle was pretty mad, tell you.
ard John Rogers was pretty nearly tick
led 10 death, and so he said TO my I'M
"'Theres goin' to be a circus in town
tomorrow. Better stay all night with
us. and ri take you to The SHOW
out OF John anyhow. so he STAYED; The
circus was expected along BY Johns
house early In the morning on It's way TO
town. and when Johns BOYS got up 70
see IL 20 by they woke their father and
my uncle with their wells.
" Jumpin iacksnlpes. pop they hol-
Tered, the bak yards got twenty foot o
snow in IT,
John and my uncle piled out for 1t was
early in September. and there hadn't been |
any sign Of snow. But there was the back |
yard with a white drift clear across it.
and banked twenty feet high. Then 1T
struck everybody all OF a sudden that the
barn was gone. You bet It was gone! II
had burned down sometime during the
night. and stuffed my uncle jamful of
uck Every blamed kernel of that runty
little popcorn had popped out like n snap
iragon and there II was banked up where
he barn had been, like a staring big
'nowdriftl Pop out bushel OF popcorn.
md 1t will swell 10 five bushels: so here
NY uncle had five hundred bushels OF
he choicest kind Of popcorn on his~hands.
While they were all gayping at the curl
,us transformation along came the circus.
The proprietor was in his wagon at the
lead Of the procession.
Thunder said he stopping to take
look at the big heap Of popcorn. 'Thatll
ell like hotcakes with my show How
much do you want for it?'
" Two dollars a bushel,' said my uncle. |
Cheap enough said the circus man.
nd he bought the whole five hundred
ushels, and planked down In my uncle's
ands ten nice fat one-hundred-dollar
us
Lucky? ] should say he was. But. do
on know John Rogers never spoke to
i'm from that time until his dying day
Jew York Sun.