| Show An Expensive Coir There is a man in Chicago who pays I 18000 a year for the privilege keeping keep-ing a cow He is a sane man a businessman business-man a man of family and generally respected in the community His poor relatives declare him a freak and his neighbors shrug their shoulders and murmur things about rich mens whims The way of it is that he possesses a Valuable val-uable building lot in a choice residence portion of the city and having nothing else to do with it he put a nice little fence around it and quartered therein his pet Jersey cow The cow was an artistic cow and harmonized well with the green turf and little bushes BO people peo-ple rather admired the arrangement One day a man camo along who thought ho would like to build a house on that jmrtionVivir lot BO l o hunted up t xa owner own-er and made him a spot cash offer of 300000 for tho land His offer was refused re-fused decisively and politely But remonstrated a relative aghast that would pay you 18000 a year I Why on earth did you refuse it Tho rich man lit a cigar and turned a protesting faco on his accuser Yes ho assented in a puzzled way but what would I have done with my cow Chicago Record |
