Show A stove eliat cost twenty five or thirty years ago marked G S hubbardjr air har ri ym owned eighty acres of land which ay iy now on the line of railway between chicago and kit arside I 1 saw t nat the property was liand to in cre ia in value and so I 1 anul ap my mini i offer ma an acre for it 1 found him in his face seated on a ii kety old sofa dealt a 1 I himself in a looking ansty be grimed old stove well I 1 made my and ho prompt 4 rejected it he B id ho wanted I 1 saw that he meant what he said and tion KM XI drifted to other topics presently 1 remarked the and hardly appearance of the stove yi carter said hj it is pretty tough lit it holds the e al and all that necessary you ought to be ashamed of conr belf 1 I r cuned TU tell you what ill do ill jn 1 go ont and uy yon a stove as a prep you ia he eagerly asked honest wi then if bonu do that ill tell you it do m let you have those eggli ores at so I 1 w sut and bought a stove aud had it an n in carters office the whole chii me 1425 As soon a the fire w bluming brightly in it I 1 demanded tit leed to the land paid the money ami albed out of the office the absolute own those eighty acres within I 1 was offered an aan r the land and refused it the next I 1 saw carter after this offer had t made I 1 told him about it yoi say ahe exclaimed como down t effice wf carter took down and in ui presence ire sence made the entry tu one office stove and he carried it right through hia book too afterward I 1 sold the land for chicago post |