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Show A parly of engineers were tracing a township line across some farm lands in Illinois. As chance would have it, the line passed directly through a large barn having double doors on each side of it, and they found they could continue their measurements meas-urements through the barn by opening open-ing the doors and thus avoiding tho dreaded detour. The owner watched their progress with considerable interest, in-terest, but made no comment until they had reached the farther side of tho barn, when ho asked: "Thet a railroad ye-all surveyin' fer?1 "Certainly," replied the chief, with a humorous twinkle in his eye. Tho farmer meditated a bit as he closed Uie barn doors behind them, when he remarked somewhat aggressively: aggres-sively: "I hain't got no objections ter havln' yer railroad on my farm, but I'll be darned of I'm going tor open and shot them doors for yer train to go through!" |