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Show them three doer had grown into tkree moose, an' it cost that man flOO apiece for the two moose which he had, inure' n tlie law allowed him. GHOWTHOP HAILROADB AND MORTOAOES. "Are they goin' to bnild that railroad, did you nay? No, I don't think they will, for jest as soon as the sleepers strike the sile the hlamed things would grow nntil the whole country would be covered cov-ered with railroads. I 'member one of tny neighbors held a mortgage ou one of the farms an' ho happened to lose it, i and didn't find it. for two days, an' when , he did find it it had grown until it had given him ft mortgage of a whole township, town-ship, and they sent him down the river ; for forgery, even it was all the fait o' i the sile. J Oh, yes! Aroostook county is a nice I farmin' country; all yer have ter do is j ter plant yer crops and they will grow j ter beat thunder. Why I have known I men to go there without a cent and clear i f'00.000 the first year all often potatoes, I an' they tlidn't have' only one potato to Ftart with, and that being a small one weighed only 000 pounds. "Everybody would be rich if the debts didn't grow equally with the profits. I 'member one man went ter sellin' ma- chinery. an' he didn't pay up for a year, an' by that time the debts had grown so liig that he never has been able ter pay it since. "Wot made me leave? Well, I'll tell yer. I turned niy flock o" sheep out one night, and the next moviiin' they had grown so 'at I had 'bout fifty morn'n I turned out th' night afore, and one o' lily neighlxirs lied lost his whole, flock, which, strange to say, had drowned, aa he never found 'em, but he said that I got 'em, and he made it so uncomfortable uncomfort-able for me that I had ter leave. Well, good day, mister, I've got ter leave, as I got ter strike the next town afore night, as my time for leaving the state expires then." Bangor News. ALL OWING TO TIIE SOIL JOHN MOSSBACK, OF WAYBACK, TELLS SOME TALL STORIES. Fnttr Log Crew Into a Frame House In One r.'f;lit and Kverything Klse Kept race A Flock of Sheep Grew So Mysteriously Mys-teriously That John Had to J.eave. "Why, hello, John," said a man who chanced to be passing along the road to John Mossback, of Wayb.ick, whom he met, "how came you in this section of the country? The last I heard yon was in Aroostook county, Me., and here I find you way down here; what caused you to leave that place? I hear that it is the garden of Maine." "Well, you see, mister, that it got too liealtliv for me up there, and I had to leave." "Too healthy! How do you make that ont? I did not suppose that yon could ' find a place that was too healthy to livo in." "Well, yer see. mister, 'at it is this way, although I don't hardly like ter tell yer, for fear 'at yer will think 'at I'm a lyin'; but I'll risk it anyway, and tell yer a few facts, and then yer'll diskiver wo't 1 mean by Win' too healthy. NOT Uni.T WITH HANDS. "Wen I fust went up there I tuck up a farm on w'ot I supposed was about ; th' richest soil in the county, and I found arter a while that, my jedgmeut was not far out o' th' way. Th' f u?t day 'at I i got there I looked around and selected ' th' spot, where I was goin' to build my i house, and as I couldn't find any stones j for underpinin' I thought 'at I would ! build my house, which was a log one, j on th' ground, hoping that it would ', stand until I could build a better one. ! It was pretty late when I got at work, I and I only got the four bottom logs to-1 gether when 1 had ter quit, an' I had ter j go about a mile ter th' house where I i was boardin' until I could get my housj? ready ter move into. Th' nei' mornin' 1 started ter go ter my work, an' w'ot was my surprise ter find th' four logs 'at I had laid for th foundation fer my house had taken root an' grown into a two story frame house, with ell and outbuildings out-buildings attached, all shingled and clapboajded and ready to move into. I mentioned the fact ter my host, an' ha said that was nothin'; 'at th' soil aliers riid that when it w:t fust broke, but that I'd get used ter it arter a while. "1 sent for my family the next day, which consisted of my wife an' a 10-year-old boy, an' in about two weeks they come up there, an' nil went well until I Ffit my boy tr harrowin'; he bein kind o' lazy, lay down ami went to sleep on th' fresh grown. In aUiut two hours he come up ter th' bone an" we didn't know hiin. Grown? Well, 1 guess so. Wen ho went away he was about the size o' any 10-year-old boy, and w'en he come j back he was plump six foot tall and ' weighed 225 pounds. "W'en it come time ter shoot deer my hired man started out ter see if he couldn't get one. Well, sir, he started a drove Jfnd drew 'em out inter one o' my ' fields and shot three of 'em, :n' every one of 'em fell on a piece of broke up 'at we had plowed that week, an' as he couldn't get 'e:u ter the houce' alone he rauie for help, an' my son ami 1 to- , gether with a warden who had just got there ti;r my house started back ter get - them, mi' sir, yon may believe it or not, , but w'eo we got there we found that: |