SMARTER THAN HE THOUGHT
It was a New York capitalist who flung a thousand dollars at one of his sons, and ■aid, “ There it Is, and It is the last dollar yon wll get from me ! Yon don’t know enough to pound salt ! Speculation! Why, you haven’t sense enough to buy and ship eggs 1” Twelve months afterwards the old man went down to Florida t» see about a three thousand acre tract of land he had purchased at three dollars an acre for an orange grove. He went to the headquarter of “ The Cooohehoone Orange Grove Agency,” and found that his son was President, Secretary, Treasurer and aole Half-an-hour later he discovered that his 30QD acres raised alligators instead of oranges, and that the bey had cleared about SOOOdol by the transaction
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1366, 9 October 1886, Page 3
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133SMARTER THAN HE THOUGHT Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1366, 9 October 1886, Page 3
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