RAPID GROWTH.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 1033, 27 December 1872, Page 2

RAPID GROWTH.

A Cincinnati paper publishes the followiug, which is probably from •' Mark Twain/' and is one of a class of stories that seem to find a good domand.in the United States.—" A man in Detroit gave me some idea of tho richness of the soil in that vicinity. He said there wasn't any place on earth where things grew as they do there-. He said his wife never made bread. She always made little biscuits the size of an egg, and she would leave' em an hour to swell by themselves; aud they would grow into 12!b loaves. I thought to myself you are a loaf-er. He continued his growing tale, and ' Once there was a man. He went into the woods and chopped down four trees, ho used the four stumps for corner posts, aud he built him a nice log house on those stumps. Then he and his family went to bed in the house. The next morning he found himself and family up 60ffc in the air, with a lot of Indians down below waiting to cut their hair off, and tho Indians did sclap tho whole of '«tn' ' {Stranger/ said I, ' you dont mean to tell me those trees grew GO ft in one night.' * Sir, I do,' says he, ' and ho% only that, th«y hoisted thc.iiouse with, 'em.' ' Are you auro it wasn't Gift ?' I asked meekly. 'Sir,' said he, 'i never prevaricate, especially on one foot.' 'So thev took and scalped 'ran all, did thoy ?'" 'They,did,' said!'.?, ' How in the name of mercy did they get up to 'em? I asked. Says he> ' Respected sir, those Indians each one sawed of a treo ; then each Indian sat upon a stump, and those stumps grew the Indiana up to the house, aud then they scalped the family.'" It certainly was the greatest case of up a tree I ever heard of.