Show iba f WANTED MORE OF THE EARTH canny young scot turned downa grand offer of acre juat just it 11 years ago in the auh ol 01 cupar capar angus word waa was passed round that young bob doi held rold the carri carriers een son wac was golub out to australia to seek bia bis fortune t eh lad ad said one local worthy but ita Ws a kichty cuir I 1 ye yeh do tar far better to stick feriv lorn I 1 n afie hopes 0 gettin your uncles collage and bil bito 0 land I 1 tho uncle oi ol the apice pro emi grant heard the news anti sought bob sl jot out thid I 1 hear bear about to Aut raly a 4 young reid told him I 1 now look here ead sald the unile baie ft a retired blacksmith I 1 stay on id capar cupar angus an ill 11 gleao ki piece 4 land tor for your ain now what do i ye bayto iia im fond 0 land bald said the boy but I 1 want iacre akan than I 1 ean ret fet in this village ira I 1 in boing out to a a bit 0 this world to repent IC it aid azid the tho uncle f 1 I hope nova not replied doo wo hot but inacy thanks all tho the same thirty years later robert a prominent montreal railway contractor eat in his office in the ca aadlan A large map of north america bung betche him blin oa on the wall having nii no borated Toted rated t tt canada Ca oada satt say the me grand orand magazine agazIne 51 bo had aa as a contractor built large portions of 0 the 01 canadian callway and WM was looking about for new fielde of endeavor ho ile picked up a letter from his desk it wast wait from tho the ot of newfoundland found land accepting his bis tender for building a railway across the island by the terms of the contract no about to be signed mr lr bryld would build the road at 5 a anita an a iq useless uless unless as engines and carriages run over it the contractor agreed to operate it far for a grant in fee simple of acre acres of lam for each mile for a ported of ten years the p g accepted thi this offer mr iteld smiled his bla thoughts at tats moment ruling going hack back to his boyhood and und to bis his undo henry dy by a single stroke ot the pen he lie imeane ano a master of acrea acres he ile was the greatest land owner in tho world but that was not nit n he ile became posse possessed sied of en an additional estate ills uncle and bequeathed him the ive five ind hd a 0 half acres in capar august |