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Show SATI8FIED WITH HIS QUIBBLE. , New Hampshire Man Stuck to Lettar of the Deed. I Thero aro some lltcra' -nlndcd per sons who n-p never satlsl'ed wltn tho spirit of '.ip liw but who consider It neccssarj g enter Into compromiser with the letter. Of such was an old citizen of Hopklnlon. N H a good many Venn ago, nnd his Jingling with his conscience Is recorded by Mr. I-prd In the records of tho town Tho old mnii used to boast that he never went back on his exact word, but had i.o compunction In going round It Onco ho wished to buy a certain tract of land, and when the owner named tho price ho exclaimed: "I won't glvo It! I tell you I will never glvo It!" Tho owner did not yield, nevertheless neverthe-less A few days afterward the old man called again Ho said nothing about tho land, but stepped Into the owner's barn and picked up a flail. "What's that?" ho askod. "That? Ob. that's n flail" "So you call that a flail, do you? Well, what would you take for It?" The owner named n very small sum. "Now. I'll tell you what I'll do" continued tho old man. "I'll glvo ou the price you mentioned for your land and this flail. And jou musn't forget the flat!. It must bo Included In the deed." So the legal Instrument was duly mado out, signed nnd dollverod, recording re-cording tho purchaso of a certain tract of land situated thus and so. nnd bounded as follows, and also a certain flail. Youth's Companion |
