PLAN No. 458. BOUGHT HIS BRIDE A BUNGALOW
An Indiana man and his bride were returning in their automobile from a trip to the country, and passed a beautiful rural bungalow on a small farm, which the bride greatly admired. She told her husband she would like to own that place.
Arriving in the city, he left his wife at her mother’s and drove to his office. Hastily glancing over the letters on his desk, he turned to the want ads. of the daily paper, and scanned them carefully until he found one which announced that a man about to establish a dairy wanted to buy any number of milch cows, up to fifty.
Suddenly he remembered that in a country paper, a few days before, he had read an ad. of an auction sale of milch cows, to be sold at a place about thirty miles from the city. He found the paper in his auto-coat pocket and saw that the auction sale was to take place the next day, so in the morning he kissed his bride good by, told her he would be back that evening, jumped into his machine and drove away.
Arriving at the place where the cows were, he looked them over carefully, saw they were of a good grade, looked at the sale announcement again, and noticed it stated that any purchaser of one cow could take the lot at the same price per head. Then he waited until a poor, scrawny heifer was put up for sale, bid her in for $35, and announced that he would take them all at that price. The owner and several bidders objected, but the auctioneer pointed to the terms of the sale, and, having the cash with him, our friend paid for the herd, hired two men to drive them to the address of the man who wanted cows, sold them at a profit of $1,000, and drove home that evening with the deed made out to his bride for the bungalow and little ranch she wanted. This is illustrative of the opportunity that appears when one knows both the sellers’ and buyers’ wants.