Show A stove that cost some twenty five or thirty years ago S hubbardjr mr harrison owned eighty acres of land which is now on the line of the burlington railway between chicago and riverside I 1 saw that tho property was hound to increase in value and so I 1 made up my mind to offer mr harrison SOO an acre for it I 1 found him in his office seated on a rickety old sofa beside a dilapidated desk and warming himself before the fire contained in a disreputable looking rusty be grimed old stove well I 1 made my offer and he promptly rejected it he sud s ud he wanted I 1 saw that he meant what he said and the conversation eoon drifted to other topics presently I 1 remarked the ancient and hardly creditable appearance of the stove yea carter said hj it is pretty tough but it holds the cal and all necessary you ought to be ashamed of yourself I 1 returned til tell yon what ill do ill just go out and buy you a stove as a arese prese it you will he eagerly asked honest well then if do that ill tell you what ill do ill let you have those eighty acres at so I 1 went out and bought a stove and bad it put up in carters office the whole thing cost me 1425 As soon as the fire was burning brightly in it I 1 demanded the deed to the land paid the money and walked out of the office the absolute owner of those eighty acres within a twelvemonth I 1 was offered an acre for the land and refused it the next time I 1 saw carter after thia offer had been made I 1 told him about it you dont fayhe exclaimed come down to my office we went carter took down his books and in my presence made the entry tu one office stove and he carried it right through his too afterward I 1 sold the land for chicago post |