[The Sagebrusher by Emerson Hough]@TWC D-Link bookThe Sagebrusher CHAPTER XXVI 8/14
"I've got my land all clear.
She's worth fifty a acre as she lays, and'll be worth a hundred and fifty when I get water out of the creek on to her.
I got three hundred and twenty acres under fence.
I been saving the money the Doc's paying me here. "Say," he added, presently, "what kind of a place is that Niagry place I been reading about? Is it far from Cleveland ?" "Not so very," replied Annie to his sudden and irrelevant query. "It's a great place for young married folks to go and visit, I reckon? I was reading about in a book onct, before my books was burned up. Seems like it was called 'A Chanct Acquaintance.' Ever since, I allowed I'd go to Niagry on my wedding journey." "Well," said Annie, judicially, "I been around some, what with floor-walkers and foremen and men in the factory, but I'm going to say that when it comes to chanct acquaintances, this here place has got 'em faded for suddenness! Go on over home and rub your eyes and wake up, man! You're dopy." "No, I ain't," said Wid.
"I'm in a perfectly sane, sound and disposin' mind.
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