Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-01-15
8 BARN THAT GREW.
u Was sttl, Growing Whom the Man Who
Started tho Bout Dlsappe.. rcd.

Started the bout Disappe. rcd.
"Say. stranger, now high mough,
that building bee asked II cour try fed.
looking individual as be stool ut broad.
way and Ann street, paz!ng up ut the
towering stIuctvve beng erected there.
The nun of whom he asked the ques-
ton erhcutly thought he would have
some fun with the farmer. lie looked
Mt the latter moment, aud then said:
"Oh, thatlittle house there? oh, that's
about 500 feet high. But that's nothing
To several huildipgs that are going to
be put up further up the street"
"Shu, you don't say SOL" exclaimed
the farmer. GLOW high mought soInc
OF them buildings going to bcY"
six tn eight hundred feet high, not
! counting the towers" replied the smart
man.
"Shu, you don't say sol" calculated
tine farmer.
"Bnt, sny, stranger. how's the pco.
pie To get M 30 the top OF them"
"Oh, that's easy enough" said the
smart man, thinking OF the fun he VIVA
having; They're going TO have rncu-
matte tubes In them. You get Into y
box and they shoot you up 10 the roof
IN two seconds"
"Shu, you don't say 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 thnn high
buildings. My brother started in To
build II burn once, and TINT bnrn COW
cred about n much land ms nll the
buildings In your town put together
"Oh, sny, old fellow" replied the fun,
ny person, "you're talking through
yusr hat. No man could build "a bif
barn ns that"
"Th1ts all right enid tho former;
shut my brothers. barn wasn't no or.
,llnnry bnrn. b'gosh. II wnsnt so big
Mt the start. but you see II took n-grow-
IN aud before Il stopped II covered hir
whale :arm---a whole section, sir, nhou,
one aQunre mile"
at took n-growlrT did IT," remarked,
the puzzled person. who hul been HAY.
ing the fun. "Soy. mlstcr, what are yo,,
driving ut. anyhow? Whoever heard oI
II larn growing?"
"Wcll. there's not many rcoplr, T..
ndhnlt. stranger" proceeded the farr'
rr. "It wns the first time thnt 7 eve,
heard OF ono; but. rs I said before. my
brothers. barn want no ord'mry barn.
You sec he built II OF u green hcmloc,,.
md as he was In hurry 10 get II lnil,
before hnrvcst. he couldn't wni, for ihr
wood TO dry out. Now TINT wood wrs
full OF sap when my brother slnppcSl
Tint barn up, and when The weather
hegnn to get warm. the snp began Ia
! run. nnh that set the wood to f-rnvN~
We'll. sir. YOU never saw anything
irrow like IL before in your life. TINY
about your big houses In this tow.l
why. they emit compare with the wnA
my brothers barn proved. IIr would
"o to led at night thinking Tint he hn,
located the door OF his barn all right /
but when he got up In the mornin' I'D
would have TO walk quarter OF fa mild
further to get into the barn to feed thI
horses. II got to he monotorous. sir.
but he stood IL NIL right unit III the barn be-
ran to run or his farm md 20 over Rlll
,fohnsons whrnt Geld. You poe TIL set
great store on rhat wheat field. lie had
n hig mortgage on his farm md he In
tended to sell the wheht and nav OFF,
T'ut the FARMER stopped. and found
that he had bccn TALKING to himself.
The man to whom he bad been talking
was block nvo nnp he wns wnllsipa
ns he hndn letter topost for his wife
or nm extremely orantcnenpemen
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