A CURIOUS COINCIDENCE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 19 March 1891, Page 4

A CURIOUS COINCIDENCE.

',- I used to travel around the country with a patent hay-fork, said the man with a green patch on his left eye, as it came to his turn to tell a story. lam not going to say anything about that patent more than that no 'farmer ever got any benefit from it. • What I wish to bring out is what might ,be called a curious coincidence, and one ; that I have kicked myself over a hundred itimes. K- It was in this way, he continued, as he 'got settled back in his seat. Farmers have [their weak spots the same as other folks. iYou can hit some of them by praising the (buildings, others by admiring their horses, [others again through their hogs or calves, j'l had a way of hitting them all, and it ,worked to my great profit every time. [When I got up in the morning, after staying fall night with a farmer, I got off something [as follows — • -.-. . p I had a very curious dream last night. I areamed that I was digging out behind your barn, just on a line with a big knothole in the sixth board from the west end, laud I unearthed a tin box containing Aoo in notes. The dream was so vivid that 1 tlmost feel the box in my hands. «- - ■•*&,. p< There's nothing in a dream, of courst, lbut I never had one which seemed so real. i Mind you I had taken notice of the knothole the evening before. Sometimes I fixed a place behind the barn and sometimes near ja stump, or so many paces from a certain (tree or straw stack, but it was all settled on ibeforehand. -;)>." %.-• , • It wasn't one time in twenty that a farmer would charge me for my lodgings after giving him this dream. It hit 'em plump centre, and they were only too anxious to get me out of the way so tpey could begin wgging.&j^V,: '■*»•>, s ;.\.* v ' ;i &* 'i^**' " Go"on,"(Mdd several voices, as he nude along pause; ;V- •".■ .-?'■ , * Well, one morning after lodging with a farmer all night, and getting his note for /io for a hay-fork, I related the usual dream in the usual way. This time it was buried treasure beneath a stump near hi* barn. *■ *•> V' I saw that he was hard hit at once, and he left me eating breakfast and went down to dig. I was chuckling over his greenness, | when he came walking in with a tin box L under his arm. t " You don't say so ?" r But I do, and it was a box he had dug out i a foot or two below the surface. It was Broken open right there and then, and may I be drowned for a yeller dog if the contents didn't pan out £900 in just as good notes as ever you saw. \ "But— but— " I There were no buts about it. He found 1 the money and kept it, as was his right, and f-o one ever came to claim it. This fiver as a-part of it. He gave it to me as a regard for my dream, and I am keeping it as ' a relic to show what a fool a man can make Lpf btwuelf, That's »H gsmlemtn— all uotpt MhM ! *tnt *tm* «f y*« i* k<*lf IMHWW