Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1889 — Not to Be Caught Napping. [ARTICLE]

Not to Be Caught Napping.

Real-estate agent (showing prospective purchaser a tract of bottom land)—You won’t find another quarter section like this within a hundred miles of here. Look at the color of the soil. See how the land lies toward the sun. It’s cheap at double the price. Prospective purchaser—But isn’t it sometimes under water ? Does this stream never overflow its banks ? Real-estate agent—Overflow ? Never, sir, never! Prospective purchaser (happening to spy a bunch of half-decayed grass and driftwood lodged twenty feet above his head in the fork of a tree) —How do you suppose that clymp ever got up there ? Agent (enthusiastically)—Don’t you see the tree grows right on the edge of the bank ? That bunch of stuff was caught there when the tree was a little bush. Probably happened a year or two ago. Just as I said, sir. Richest soil in the world, sir !—Chicago Tribune.