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Show WANTED TO BE AGREEABLE Farmer's Rather Humorous Explanation Explana-tion for Telling Exceedingly - ' ' "Tall" Story. Irving Batcheller once told a story of a farmer on the Connecticut hills. "Pretty eteep land for planting, isn't It?" a visitor asked the tiller of the toil. "Pretty steep," the farmer assented. "I suppose it's quite difficult to plant your corn?" "Quite difficult," came the echo. The visitor was interested, and would not be put off with short replies. re-plies. "Eh how do you manage to plant on this hill?" he persisted. The farmer gazed at him pityingly. "We have to shoot it all into the earth with shotguns, stranger," he assured as-sured his guest. The visitor gasped. "Really?" he ejaculated. "Really now? Is that actually ac-tually true?" The farmer sighed and turned upon his guest a look of withering scorn. "No, that isn't true," he answered. "I'm trying to make conversation." |