THE TIM BUNKEE PAPEES. 109 



NO. 35. TIM BUNKER ON DRESS IN REPLY 

 TO HIS NEIGHBORS. 



ME. EDITOE : I was considerably astonished to see the 

 letter from Tucker and Jones in your last paper. I did 

 not suppose that I had said anything to break the peace, 

 or to stir up my neighbors, and even that letter don t 

 fairly convince me. You see it is a great country, where 

 it takes two folks to write a letter and such a letter ! 

 Anybody that knows those two*men knows that they did 

 not write that letter. It is not in them, and what is not 

 in a man can t come out of him any way. I took the pa 

 per right to Tucker, as soon as it come, and says I to him, 

 says I, 



&quot; Tucker, do you know who wrote that letter ?&quot; 

 &quot; No, I don t, Square,&quot; says he, &quot; blam d if I do.&quot; 

 And neighbor Jones said the same thing. If they told 

 a whopper, it probably is not the first one they have told, 

 for though I say it, that should not, their reputation don t 

 stand any the highest for speaking the truth. 



I suspect they either got somebody to write the letter for 

 them, or some envious person who wants to get hold of 

 my piece of reclaimed marsh, wrote it in their name, mean 

 ing to run it down, so as to get it as cheap as possible. 

 That is about the drift of the letter, as far as I can see any 

 in it. But I may as well say, first as last, that that piece 

 of land is not in the market. Land that will cut three tun 

 of hay to the acre, or pasture a cow through the whole 

 season, is about good enough to keep. The marsh has 

 turned the heads of some people, and I havejiad a lot of 

 folks from abroad to see it, and to learn how the trick was 

 done. A fellow called the other day from way down be 

 yond Boston. He had a project in his head, to reclaim 

 three thousand acres, and make a mint of money out of it. 



