The Mississippi Union advocate and Southern farm and home., 1909-01-06
BAGLIDDER WAS
CAUTIOUS
Why He Refused to Sign Papers


had just filed out, but the old gentle
man waved the pen aside and, settling
back in his rocker, carefully adjusted
his spectacles and read the document
through, which was a proceeding that
required time.
."But then, you're getting q good sell
lery, Hen" said my Uncle Alexander,
IAN it's all in the years work. I'm
good deal like Old Man Baglidder. Did
you ever hear about him an the fel-
Ter who came through gettin' the right
o'-way for that railroad? It was afore
your time, anyway"
Tell it" said the assessor.
1T was like this, said my Uncle Al
exander. I'VE all wanted transporta-
tion to the city the worst way. There's
some believe we got it when we got
the railroad. They think that the
best way would have been to have
stuck to the river an canal.
"AlI the same, we was crazy to get
the railroad in, and that feller had a
huckleberry picnic gatherin' up the
deeds No trouble to him at all till he
run again Old Man Baglidder.
THE old man was out in the field
with one O. them new-fangled harvest
ers when the feller come along, an
he pulled up his horses an gave him
the time o. day as pleasant as basket
o. chips.
I'm representa- the railroad says
the feller. I've heard that you are
In favor of encouragin' the enterprise
an are willin' to deed us the right-o'-
way through your farm
You en- hear most anythin' these
days, says the old man.
eff you have any doubt about the
benefit it's goins to be to you an tc
the hull country, reckon can con
vince you,' says the feller. You're
believer in progress, amt your
"T b'lieve | am, says the old man
There amt many in this county
gatherin' in their crops by machinery
] carlate.
"sThat's true says the feller, with
a winnin' smile It's the fust one I've
seen in my travels through here. Well
that bein' the case, you nachully wan
a quick an cheap transportation fol
your crops; you want quick and cheaI
transportation for yourself. You wan
a direct line o. communication witt
the city that win bring people in an
boost the land values, don't YOU?
"That's me, says Old Man Bag
lidder.
That's what the railroads goin
to do for you, says the feller.
"It looks to me like it would saiC
the old man.
"T sh'd think that you would b.
willin' to give us that little hundred
foot strip, then, says the railroad ma
"T didn't say that I wasn't, did Il
says Baglidder.
Well, if that's the case, don
need to say no more,' says the fellel
i've got the deed right here in M
pocket, an If you'll jest sign
Gedapl says the old man, picldr
up his lines an startin' up the team
You don't play that on me, youn
man; not by big, brown, stone jul
full
"sHey! hold on a minute the felle
hollers. I want to talk to you, M
Baglidder'
ct cal-late you'll have to wait till
git through, then, the old man hollel
back. I've got this wheat to harvest
An he drives on.
''Well, the feller was pretty hoppi
mad, but there wasn't nothin' to
but to set down in the shade an wa
and that's what he done till near su
down, when the old man drove up
the barn and unhitched.
"Then the railroad feller went |
to him and 'polergized for troubli
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