| Show 1 BIS OLD WOMAN BEAT SEAT I Colonel C lonel Hires Hire s Bit of Experience Be garding Dreams Breams cP Detroit Free Press PressAs I As Ass to dreads drams s and dream books said Uces res g QC or Indiana who was was j in r Detro Detroit other eother day I had hadu a bit sent Into the oil section of ot Ohio by certain capitalists and I got my eye on a tract of land belonging to an old chap named Barnes He would not allow a test well to be driven and when offered 50 59 an acre at a venture he replied I want ant what hat mY and d Is tS worth o o 9 J handL and q J a p t 4 of o f experience a few fc year A r yarn C 7 no more I will consult a a dream book i and see you later I Two or three days after he called i on jI me and said the dream book told him that there was a a large lake of oil oll under tinder his land and that hat he must not pot sell short of 1000 an acre I laughed at tt him hini and nd he wenta went way away saying saing he be i would consult co u t a fortune teller eUer and anci jet tJ the result result be known kI When he re returned r returned 1 turned turn ed his h 15 price P e was 1500 an acre He I had been told that the th supply of or oil was inexhaustible I 1 sent sent him Jf off and I It was a week later when ten he turned ned up for the thUd third time tm and nd said ald j Well colonel Ive Jve Ive ome me to make mak I a a dicker dl bout that land i ra your figures to t toR i iu R u 2000 an acre I queried J JNo No sir sir my figures nave have gone i down to 50 i U How did that happen I U Well I J consulted d the t e dream book and it told me to ask a thousand I I went to a fortune teller and nd she told me to as teen en hundred hundred hundri Then Theli Th nI I went ent to mir roI l t s Oman r i a i d she said r L to me says she Jacob If theres any man fool nough to think he kin do find a pint o oHe oIle lie Ile under our land let him hint have it at athis athis athis his own price And so take 50 an an acre acrel l Im m I wilL The Theland land was bought at the figure figure named n and although OO ryas ex ez e in n sinking wells s the syndicate never got enough oil to grease the ma machinery chinery c |
