[Copper Streak Trail by Eugene Manlove Rhodes]@TWC D-Link bookCopper Streak Trail CHAPTER IX 21/28
It must have cost a nice bunch of money.
Who built it? When did who build it? What did it cost? Where did it begin? Where did it start to? Was it ever finished? Was it ever used? What was the name of it? Nobody seems to know." "I can't answer one of those questions, Mr.Boland." "And you a schoolmistress! Come now! I'll give you one more chance.
What are the principal exports of Abingdon ?" "That's easy.
Let me see: potatoes, milk, eggs, butter, cheese.
And hay, lumber, lath and bark--chickens and--and apples, apple cider--rye, buckwheat, buckwheat flour, maple sirup; pork and veal and beef; and--and that's all, I guess." "Wrong! I'll mark you fifty per cent.
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