FAR FROM MARKET.
Soon after the Civil War, General Ingalls, U.S.A., visited a friend in the South. Taking a walk one morning he met a boy coming up from the river with a fine string of fish.
"What will you take for your fish?" asked the general.
"Thirty cents," was the reply.
"Thirty cents!" repeated the general in astonishment. "Why, if you were in New York you could get three dollars for them."
The boy looked critically at the officer for a moment and then said, scornfully:
"Yes, suh; en' I reckon if I had a bucket of water in hell I could get a million dollars for it."—Saturday Evening Post.