An Assessor Caught in His Own Trap.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1812, 16 February 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

An Assessor Caught in His Own Trap.

A good story is told at the expense of the Assessor in a town of Norfolk county, Mass. A few years since, when the tax bills came out, a farmer went before the Board and asked for an abatement en the tax of a wood lot. His request was refused, so he went quietly to work and cut the wood from the lot, and said nothing. The next year the Assessors did not think it necessary to view the wood lot, as some of the Board had inspected it the year before, and so marked the valuation the same. Again the owner appeared and asked for a reduction of the tax, saying it was too much. u "Will you sell the lot at the valuation?i" asked one of the Assessors. The crafty farmer hesitated a moment and then, pretending that

he saw the drift of the quGrftion, said ho would. " I will take it," said tbo Ass^oi 1 . The farmei hung the for a while, bat finally

said ho could have it. In duo tiinti the papeis were passed, aud when the new owner visited his possession and found aeies of sprout land where he expected *'oi<]- of hoavj wood, his wiath can be imagined. — Boston Glaiha.

D n\ i ii horn a singular accident: SallieParjner, ot Koosc. Tex., about 10 jcais old, while climbing in the doer of a corn crib, accidentally struck a'neodle which was in the bosom of her dross against the door, lunning the needle about an inch and a quarter into her breast, striking the basa of the heart. She died in about an hour atter the accident. — The Bulletin.