Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1910 — It Wouldn’t Stretch. [ARTICLE]

It Wouldn’t Stretch.

The assessor was doing the very best he could, but the farmer was shrewd and wary. “How many acres of farming land have you?” he inquired warily. " ’Bout 20, I guess,” said Reub On. "Twenty! -Why, it looks to me like nearer 120. Come, now, can’t you Increase that a little? There are surely more than 20 acres in that tract. Suppose you stretch that a little." “Say, feller,” said* the farmer, “this ain’t no rubber plantation.”—Harper’s Monthly.