The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-28
.SIXTYBUSHELS
OF CORN
By M. QUAD
Copyright, 1910 by Associated Lit
erary Press.
By M QUAD


of acres of ground in the outskirts of
the village of Bryon. She had three
small children, and the world was not
going very well with her Her COW
had been taken on a debt, there was a
mortgage of 5000 on the place. and
the holder was threatening to sell her
out.
One day a fat man arrived in the
village and took rooms at the tavern.
He was fat and jolly and gossipy. He
was also sympathetic. He happened
to hear of the Widow Glenn's troubles,
and after three or four days he saun-
tered out that way and found her seat
ed on the doorstep with tears in her
eyes.
widow" said he after introducing
himself and sympathizing with her
about the loss of crops, I'm fat
man. I'm a good man. have a
heart You are not getting fair
show in this world am not here to
ask your hand in marriage. for Cupid
is not for me. l am here TO say that
those who so out to shear shall be
shorn, or words to that effect"
Il don't understand you" was her
reply.
"And those who go out to slay shall
come back home slain themselves.
While am a fat man and good man
and have a heart, there are times
when / do little business on the out
side This is one of the times.
want to rent your barn for a week,
and then want you to act as my
agent for perhaps two more. ! will
pay you 500 a week and perhaps
more"
"But you can't mean it" exclaimed
the surprised woman.
But / can, widow | want the barn
to store corn in. It is shelled and viii
come in sacks There win be many
come to buy it for next years seed
The price win be $40 bushel.
LAS my agent you are to sell it at
$40 a bushel, and / am to pay you
5000 for so doing"
why, III do that, of course, butt
Say no more, widow. Rest right
there Here's So for the rent Of the
barn till we get married. The corn
win arrive on the railroad, and teams
will draw it up here"
Next day the fat man and the good
man and the man with heart pre-
pared an article for the village paper.
He also got out circulars to farmers.
The inventor of a new breakfast food
wanted 5000 bushels of corn next
year. He wanted red corn exclusive
1y. He would pay SO per bushel for
It. The red corn was a fad. but New
York was willing to pay for its fads
The Widow Glenn had been made the
agent of the Great American Red
Corn Fad company and had red seed
corn to sell at so per buskel. Call
before it was all gone. Not more than
three bushels to any one buyer, as the
company wanted to give all farmers a
chance
The fat man with a heart disappear
ed The widow had her instructions,
and she obeyed them. The red corn
was in two bushel sacks, and the farm
ers tumbled over themselves to take
them away.
The widows roll of ten and twenty
dollar bills grew larger every hour, and
her heart grew lighter There was
mystery about her being appointed
agent, but no one had any time to
talk about it. It was the red corn fad
that was on tap all the time. Many
of the buyers thought there might be
a demand for blue corn within two or
three years and wondered how it could
be grown. In ten days every bushel
of the corn was sold. and the widow
had 5000 deposited in the postofiee
safe. Then the fat man showed up.
lie was just as fat and jolly as ever.
He said at the tavern that the day
seemed to have dawned when red corn
must take its place in the social and
commercial world, and he intimated
that the stock he had secured In the
Great American Red Corn Fad com
pany would pay dividends of so per
cent within two years. To the widow,
when he had sauntered out to her
house and received the roll of green
backs, he said:
widow, i am a fat man, a good
man and man with a heart. Here
is $225 to clear the mortgage and in
terest off your home"
"Oh, but it's too muchv she replied.
widow, there's those around here
who have sought to shear you. They
win lose their own wool. Take this
SIS to fit up the children and your
self
'There are those around you who
have sought to STAY you, and now they
have slain themselves. Take another
hundred to build a new fence, paint
the house and get some new furni-
ture."
But that's S400r'
widow, your figures are correct.
The $500 keep win pay for the corn,
the freightage and my summer vaca-
ton. I was in the lightning rod bust
ness once, but my conscience drove
me out Of it. I am now simply n fat
man. good man and a man with a
heart Widow, orphans, fare thee
we'll"
And about the red corn? It had been
dyed red And about the farmers?
Well, as never kernel of that red