Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1882 — A Candid Land Agent. [ARTICLE]

A Candid Land Agent.

A glib-talking land agent was presenting the merits of a certain tract of land. After he had exhausted himself, and could think of no more yarns to match what he had spun, he remarked, with a sigh, “ I won’t deoeive yon, gentlemen; there is a vegetable that cannot be grotfn there, and that is the pumpkin.” “Why not?” they exclaimed. “Well, in the first place, the pumpkin is a great runner. It can distance the cucumber and the squash. To grow pumpkins it is necessary to build a high board fence around a ten-acre lot to prevent the vines from escaping into the next county, so rapidly do they grow on that soil; and if they be fenced in, they race around the lot all summer, trying to get out, and, of course, wear out the pumpkins dragging them over the ground,” That was enough. If any agent supposes that he can sell a New Englander land that will not raise pumpkins, he mistakes.—Providence Journal.