| Show violin brings farmer wealth finding himself suddenly possess possessed etl of 0 a violin evidently of great value charles riley a gettysburg farmer of moderate circumstances Is non happy over the turn of affairs which he believes has freed him for the rest of his life from financial worries the itolle was vias supposed to be worthless and opine to him in the distribution or his fathers personal effects riley tho thought ight little of the finstra mant until lie he was offered 50 for it I 1 ho he then suspected that it might lin 1 worth more and refused the offer gradually Gra duall the would be purchaser iw fa creased his offer until it reached which riley still refused later in the day an effort was made by another person to buy the violin but riley is holding on to it until ho can obtain more the instrument bears the late 1703 which is a carved on it iila his father purchased it at al a public tile sale |
