Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-01-15
4 BARN THAT GREW.
10 Was stul Growing Whom she Man Who
Started the Bout Disa ppe-. rcd.


started the Boat Disa ppe- rcd.
Say. stranger, aow high moughl
that building beS asked cour tr, fed.
looking individual as he stool at broad.
way and Ann street. Pdzlng up at the
towering ST uctcve be .ng erected there
The man Of whom he asked the ques-
ton e-fcntly thought he would have
some fun with the farmer. lie looked
ut the latter u moment, and then said:
"Oh, that little house there2 Oh. that's
about 500 feet high. But that's nothing
to several huildipgs shat are Coing To
be put up further up the street"
"Shu, you don't say So" exclaimed
the farmer. allow high mought soIuc
of them buildings going TO bc?"
''SiX 10 eight hundred feet high. no,
counting the towers" replied the smart
man.
"Shu. you don't say sol" CALCULATED
tine farmer.
"Bnt. say, stranger. how's the pco-
pie TO get up 90 the top OF them"
"Oh, that's easy enough" said the
smart man, thinking OF the fun he wns
having; They're going TO have rpeu-
matte tubes In them. You get into
box and they shoot you up 80 the roof
IN two seconds"
"Shu, YOU don't cay sol" once more
remarked the farmer. "Your houses
don't cover much ground. stranger. do
they? Now ont In my part of the coun-
try we go In for more land than high
buildings. My brother started Ia 10
build n barn once, and that barn Gov
cred about n much land MS nil the
buildings i'm your town put together"
"Oh, sny. old fellow" replied the fun.
ny person, you're talking through
yosr hat. No man could build az blk
n barn as that"
"Th1t's all right" fnid the farmer:
"but my brothers. barn wasn't no or
d'nnry barn. b'gosh. II wasn't so big
nt the start, but you see H. took n-grov-
in. and before Il stoprcd IL covered his
whole :arm--a whole section. sir, about
one equare mile"
cit took n-growir~. did g." r. marked
the puzzled person. who had been haN-
ing the run. "Say. mister what are Won
driving at. anyhow Whoever heard OF
u harm growing""
Well there's not many rcnple. T.!
rduit. stranger" proceeded the farr'.
rr. 1T wns the first time thu. cvcr
heard OF one: but. as said before. my
brothers b0ru waFn't no ord'nrrv barn.
You SEQ he built u 81 green hcmloci,.
md a. he was In q hurry 90 get II hull.
before harvest he couldn't whit FOR tho
wool 10 dry out Now that wood vrrs
full OF sap when nv brother slappcsi
that barn mp. and when I'm, weather
regnn 10 get warm. the sap began "a
run. anil that set the wood ta C-rov No
We'll, cir, YOU never saw nnythin,
"row like IL before In your life. Tan
about your bic houses Ia this towt
why. they can't compare with the wn
my brothers barn proved. lie would
30 90 he'd at night thinking Tint hc hail
located the door OF his barn all right Il
hut when he got mp in the mornin' hd
would have 20 walk quarter of a mili
further 10 get into the barn to feed thr
horses. II got 10 I've rlonotorous. s'rI
but he stood il all right until the barn be-
-an TO run OF his farm md 20 over RTll
Iohnson's wheat feld You s~e I'm sctl
great store on rhat wheat field. re hall
a hig mortgnge on HIS farm and ne In
tended 10 sell tho wheat and pay OF"
Tut the FARMER stopped. and found
that he had been falling 10 himself.
The man 20 whom he bad been talking
was block ava ani he was walking
as II he had letter topost for his wIfc
or M extremely impotantc
10 iseep.-N. Y. Tribune.