Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-04
THE OWNER

"Dunne."
 Well. it's nc wonder that all the flies in Benson county gather on you in the summeri Say, you haven't as much get-up about yeu as blind horsei''
 f don't know why you talk to me. that way stiffly said the deacon.
 Its because you've had Q fortune too much of a messRack to know it! Ol man. what a snap you've walked over!
 Did you get that stun around here?"
 The talk resulted in g. 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. leaving young girl behind them.
 The girl must be of age. She must have a guardian. but he had never made a move about the real estate.
 The young man, whose name was Edward Sweeney. was to go to Kansas and hunt up Miss Sarah Flint and stick right to her until she accepted an offer. Then Hardy and Sweeney were to buy it. What's it wuth ?' asked the deacon. "A hundred thousand at least" re- piled Sweeney. And what do you think we can get it for?' T think she'll jump at thousand" !" The deacon chuckied. Then he sighed. Then he groaned. Then he went home and said to his wife: Martha, if men another Teller can get the old Flint place for $500 apiece and make over s40,0e0 apiece out of | 1t, do you think 1t would be wicked 7. T should call it good bargaining she replied. It wouldn't be laid up agin me?" Look a-here. deacon, they used to raise heap of cattle. sheep and asses i in Biblical days. didn't they?"
 They did.'
 And they sold heap of 'em?" They must have" 1 Well, do you reckon anybody sold below the market price? Don't you | think they sold way above it when 1 they got cfiance?" 1 T should say they did.@ "Of course they did, and there isn't a word of criticism in the Bible about l Ought we to tell the gal what has | been diskivered on the placer l Does a merchant tell us what his kalilxer costs him yard and ain'f l they GyauS anu 5oaA6 Io HooTSAi S'SAS | day?"
 l The deaeon,s conscience felt balmy after that, and young Sweeney startet 1 out to find the heir. 1 Luck was with hina. He had located her whereabouts and was approaching the house where she lived when h.
 beheld her coming towards him on ; | runaway horse. There was a fin
 opening for a hero and he grasped 1t.
 He caught the horse and save. 1 Sarah's life and had a leg broken. 4
 county of our glorious Union. Wfhel
 he has 8 leg broken in playing hi
 part he is taken to the house wher,
 the heroine hangs out and given he
 hall bedroom until he can once nor
 jump fences.
 This case was no exception, Low
 came, and a marriage came accord
 ing to programme.
 One day Deacon Hardy got a lette
 with the Kansas postmark. He rea' it and took it home and laid it befor his wife.
 "He says he has found the heiress,
 she read.
 "Yep"'
 "He says they are married" Yep"
 And therefore he's the owner c ; the Flint place, and don't care abou taking in a partner. Deacon Hard5
 did you have any partnership paper . drawn up so that you can hold him Il No"
 Well, you ain't a fool. You ar just a good man who is going t , 1 heaven when he dies. and if I'm lef
 behind you I'll forward your salt DOT
 and jehnnycake by the first express" . Buffalo Courier.