Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1910 — A Stroke of Business. [ARTICLE]

A Stroke of Business.

A writer who was wary intimate with Frank R. Stockton says that when the Stockton family lived in Bucks county, Pa., Frank and his brother had a dog which they trained solely to hunt oats. The brothers were overhauled one day by a farmer whose cat they were chasing. To placate the farmer they gave him a dollar for a pig, which they took home. By driving away their father’s pigs at feeding time they soon made their own the fattest pig in the pen and sold him at a profit of $7.00. Frank R. Stockton always considered the deal a tribute to his business acumen.