The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-07-25

be summed II want to live the rest
of my life in this tumble old log house.
and eat johnny-cake and fried salt
pork three times a day"
The deacon was waiting for an OPP
portunity to be less good when a keen
eyed young man Of twenty-five blew
into the village. His home town was
fifty miles away, and he wasn't saying
why he left 1t. After hanging about for
four OF five days and taking long
walks out into the country he entered
Deacon Hardy's real estate once one
afternoon and flung chunk of marble
on the table and asked:
do you know what that is?'
Looks kinder like MARBLE" was the
reply after inspection.
Kinder like? Why, man alive, it's
marble for sure. And maybe you can
tell what this is"
IT'S some kind of sile"
You bet It IL, and it's q kind worth
money! It's peat. And what 10 that?"
81 should say 1t was clay"
And you'd hit It. Fines kind OF pot
ter,s clay. And what's this?"
More clay"
You've hit II again. It's brickmak-
er's clay and as smooth as silk. Once;
what's this?''
There's sand and there's gravel"
Good guesser. And where did all
this come from?'
Dunno
We'll. It's no wonder that all the
flies in Benson county gather on you
in the summer! Say, you haven't as
much getup about you as blind
-horse!"
II don't know why you talk to me
that way" stifily said the deacon.
ITS because you've had fortune
within your grasp for years. and WAS
too much Of a mossback to know II!
oh! man, what q snap you've walked
overt"
did you get that stun around
here?"
Almost under your nose. Let's have
talk"
The talk resulted in a partnership
They were to buy the Josiah Flint hill
and marsh and develop the minerals.
peat and other things. The deacon had
laid by some money in his better days.
He was besides. the only man in the
county who knew anything about Flint
He knew that he had gone to Kansas.
and that he and his wife had died leav-
ing young girl behind them. The girl
must be Of age by then. She must
have had guardian. but he had never
made a move about the real estate.
The young man. whose name was
Edward Sweeny, was to go to Kansas
and hunt up Miss Sarah Flint and
stick right to her until she accepted an
offer. Then Hardy and Sweeny we're
to buy 1t.
What's It wuth?" asked the dea-
con.
"A hundred thousand. at least" re-
piled Sweeny.
And what do you think We can get
1t for?'
II think she'll Jump at thousand" !"
The deacon chuckled. Then he
sighed. Then he groaned. Then he
went home and said to his wife;
Martha, II men and another feller
can get the old Flint place Tor $bOO
I apiece, aud make over $4,000 apiece
out of 1t, do you think It would be
wickedT
81 should call It good bargaining" +"
she replied.
1T wouldn't be laid up agin met"
Look a-here. deacon. they used to
raise heap Of cattle. sheep and asses
in Biblical days. didn't theyT'
"They did"
"And they sold heap of emf"
They must have"
We'll. do you reckon anybody sold
below the market price1 Don't you
think they sold way above 1t when
they got a chance?"
Il should say they did"
'Of course they did. and there isn't
a word Of criticism In the Bible about
It."
Ought we to tell the gal what has
been diskivered on the placef"
Does a merchant tell US what his
kaliker cost him yard. and amt they
dying and going to heaven every dayT''
The deacon's conscience felt balmy
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