The trade was made, and the buyer congratulated himself not a little on having got a good thing at a low price. But there was one member of his family who was not altogether pleased.
The son, a dapper young man, wanted a little more "style," and would have preferred a new vehicle of fashionable build. He said so much about it that his father at length lost all patience, and told him seriously that he was tired of his talk, and would hear no more about it.
"But, father," said time young man, "don't you think we had better have that 'B. C.' painted out?"
"I tell you," said his father, "that I will not hear another word from you about it."
"All right, sir," said the son, dutifully; "you know best, of course, but I thought that perhaps people might think that was when it was made."
The father surrendered.
FARM LIFE.
A writer in Scribner's Magazine asserts that the farmer, having the most sane and natural occupation, ought to find life pleasant.
He alone, strictly speaking, has a home. How can a man take root and thrive without land? He writes his history upon his field.