The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-02-06
q RARN rHAT aREw.


q was sim Growing When the Man WIN
starred fne Bout Disappeared.
asav, stranger, how high mought
that building be?Y asked a countryhed-
looking Individual as he stood at Broad
way and Ann street, gazing up at the
towering structure being erected there.
The man of whom he asked the ques-
ton evidently thought he would have
some fun with the farmer. He looked
at the latter a moment, and then said:
sob, that little house there2 oh, that's
about 500 feet high. But that's nothing
10 several buildings that are going to
be put up further up the street"
'Shu, you don't say sotf eSelaimed
the farmer. ss1How high mought some
of them buildihgs going to be
"Six to eight hundred feet high net
counting the towers" replied the smart
a t@
"Sbn. you doa't say sol aculated
the farmer.
"But, say, stranger, hows the peo-
pie to get up to the top of them2"
ooh, that's easy enough" said the
smart man, thinking of the fun he was
having; they're going to have pneu7
matte tubes in them. You get into .
box and they shoot you up to the roof
in two seconds"
"Shu, you don't say soi' once more
remarked the farmer. ''Your houses
don't cover much ground, stranger, do
they? Now out in my part Of the oun
try we go in for more land than high
I,,3l5;-re ATrr hro4har e+ar4e1 in RI
build a barn once, and that barn v
cred about as much land as all the
buildings in.your town. put together"
~"Oh, say, old fellow, replied the fun
ny person, ''you're talking through
your hat. No man could build as big
a barn as that"
s@aThat's all right" said the farmer;
'Tbut my brothers barn wasn't no or
binary barn, b'gosh. 1t wasn't SO big
at the start, but you see it took a-grow-
in, and before it stopped it covered his
whole carm-A whole section, sir, about
one square mile aayf8N /,
sit took a-growing, did it" remarked.
the puzzled person, who had been hav-
ing the fun. Say, mister, what are you
driving at, anyhow? Whoever heardAof
a barn growing?"
well, there's not. many people, III
admit, stranger" proceeded the farm
er. ut was the first time that | ever
heard of one; but, as I said before, my
brothers barn wasn't n%oNordinary barn.
You see he built it of a green hemlock,
and as he was in a hurry to get it built
before harvest, he couldn't wait for the
wood to dry out. Now that wood was
full of sap when my abrotheF slapped
Ethat barn up, and when the weather
began to get warm, The sap began to
run. and that set the wood to growing.
Well, sir, you never Nsaw anything
grow like it before ingyour life. Talk
about your big houses in this town,
why, they can't compare with the way
my brothers barn growed. He would
60 to bed al night thinking that he mad
located the door Of his barn. all right;
sNu got up in the mornin he
would have to walk quarter of a mile
further to- get intosthe barn to feed the
horses. IL got To lie m~onotonous, Sir.
but he stood it all rfghtuntilth the barn be.
gan to run off his farm and go over Bill
Johnson's wheat field. You see Bill SCI
great store on that wheat field He had
a big mortgage. on his farm and he in
tended to sell the wheat and pay Off
But the farmer stopped, and found
that he had been talking to himself
The man to whom be had been talking
was a block awaEpan md he was walking
as i. beshad q letter to post for his wife
or an extremely acknowledgements
Ito keep.-N. Y. Tribune.