Too Poor to Take a Paper.
i Moore, of the Kural New Yorker, was sitting in hi* office one afternoon when a farmer friend of his came in. " Mr Moore, I like your piper, but the times are so hard I caunot pay for it." "Is that so, friend Jones ? I'm very sorry to learn that you are so hard run I wdl give you my paper." "Ohno ! I can't take it as a gift." *' Well, than, let me see how we can fix it. You raise chickens, I believe ?" " Yes, a few, but they don't bring anything hardi - *. " Don't they ? Neither does my paper cost anything hardly. Now, I have a proposition to make to you. I will continue your paper, and when you go home V' u may seh-ct one chicken and call her nine. Take good care of here and bring me the proceeds, whether in eggs or in chickens, and we'll call it square." "All right. Brother Moore," and the farmer chuckled as he went out at what h* thought a elever bargain. He kept the contract strictly, and at the end ot the year found that he had paid about four prices for his paper. He often tells the yjke on himself, and says he has never had the cheek to say that he was too poor to take a paper since.
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 111, 2 June 1883, Page 3
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