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seeing a cow or calf. When we reckon fence at a dollar 

 a rod, we can see to what a large expense farmers are sub 

 jected, to give a few penurious people the privilege of 

 pasturing their cattle in the road. 



You see, Mr. Editor, I am not going to stand this nui 

 sance any longer. I shall give Jake Frink and Bill Bot 

 tom one fair warning, and after that, if their cattle are 

 found in the road, they will go to the pound. This kind 

 of politeness costs too much entirely. What do you think 

 of it? 



[Esquire Bunker is right. Cattle running at large are 

 a nuisance that should not be tolerated in any civilized 

 community. The pound is a sure remedy. Let him try 

 it. ED.] 



NO. 15. TIM BUNKER ON THE WEAKER 

 BRETHREN. 



MR. EDITOR: I see by a former number of the Agri 

 culturist that you had your reporter up here, taking notes 

 at our Farmers Club. I had no idea that he was around, 

 or I should have fixed up my remarks in a little better 

 shape, and dove-tailed the argument on mixed papers a 

 little tighter together. I hold that what a man sees fit. 

 to print, should be water-tight. I want you to under 

 stand, and the public also, that J am not responsible for 

 anything the reporters say about me, and that none of 

 Tim Bunker s sayings are the genuine article, unless they 

 come direct from Hookertown, and are over my name. 

 You see they have got to counterfeiting my name already, 

 just as they have Perry Davis , the inventor of the pain 



