Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1882 — What a Surveyor Missed. [ARTICLE]

What a Surveyor Missed.

“ What are you going to do now?” asked the old man of the surveyor, who was surveying the line between two farms. “Find the exact line,” was the reply. At this the man wheeled and went off on the gallop, and he was seen no more until the line had been run. The surveyor and the first named farmer had just completed the work when the other came up to within about ten feet of them and asked: “ Well, have you got through?” “Yes, ail through.” “ Ana is the fence a foot on his farm?” “ No; he has two feet of yours, and the fence must be moved so that you can have it.” The man sprang upon a stump, faced a thicket about five rods away, and yelled out: “ You there—Reuben and James and Samuel! The survey is made and we are all right! You Kin shoulder them shotguns and go back to the sawmill, and if you meet the old woman coming with the pitchfork, you kin tell her to turn back and git up a squar’ dinner for the surveyor J’-’— Detroit Free Press.

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