"Well, you see it's located near the lake, and though it's barren enough it's well situated, and there's five acres of it, plenty of room for all the buildin's required. They offered me first seven hundred, then eight hundred, and finally when they got up to a thousand I caved in——"
"You what?"
"Well, I agreed to let 'em have it. I'm going over to-day to get the money."
"Why, it'll make us rich, Adin. I never expected you'd be wuth a thousand dollars."
"I wonder what Uncle Dan would have said if he'd thought I would have got so much for the land. He never cared much for me, and he only left me that because he thought it wasn't wuth anything. He did better by me than he expected."
"What are you going to do with the money, Adin?"
"I don't know yet. I'll keep it by me till I've decided. Perhaps I'll invest in gov'ment bonds. I guess they're about as safe as anything."
"So I've heard, Adin. I suppose the gov'ment ain't likely to fail."
"If it is, I guess all the banks will fail too."
"How are you goin' over to Rockmount?"