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King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 742, 3 February 1915, Page 7

WHICH TWO?

"Do you see that handsome row of tall poplars on the Canadian shore, standing apparently at equal distances apart?" asked a melancholy-looking man of a group of passengers on the Fort Erie ferry-boat at Buffalo. The group nodded assent. "Well, there's quite a story connected with those trees," he continued. "Some years ago there lived in a house in Buffalo, overlooking the river, a very wealthy banker, whose only daughter was beloved by a young surveyor. The old man was inclined to question* the professional skill of young rod-and-level; and to put him to the test he directed him to set out on the Dominion shore a row of trees no two Df which should be any farther apart than any other two. "The trial proved the lover's inefficiency, and - forthwith he was forbidden the housei and in despair he drowned himself in the river. Perhaps some of you gentlemen with keen eyes can tell which two trees are farthest apart?"

The group took a critical view ot the situation, and each selected a different pair of trees. Finally/ after much discussion, an appeal was made to the solemn-faced strangej to solve the problem. "The first and the last," said he, calmly, resuming his cigar and walk> ing off with the air of a sage.

It is often necessary and bind rather to wiite letters that amount to nothing than not to write at all.—Goethe*