132 THE TIM BUNKER PAPERS. 



It is a light, sandy loam, bearing a-plenty of five-fingers, 

 and mullein, and a little red-top, with other wild grasses. 

 Jake was upon this piece of land last summer, plowing for 

 buckwheat, when a fellow came along in a fine carriage, with 

 a span, and inquired for Mr. Frink Jacob Frink, Esq., 

 he called him. As Jake tells the story, he was considera- 

 .bly elevated, to hear a well-dressed city gentleman calling 

 him &quot;Esq.&quot; 



&quot; So I holler d whoa to old Buck and Bright, and axed 

 him what his name might be, and where he was from. 

 And he said : &quot; 



&quot; I m Mr. Smith, the senior partner in the firm of Smith, 

 Stubbs, Darby & Co., of Philadelphia, proprietors of the 

 patent for the improved, imperial, nitrogenized Tafeu.&quot; 



&quot;Wall, now, I m Jake Frink, and nothing else, and 

 don t know enny thing but English, and not much of that. 

 I don t know what Tafeu is, never heard of it.&quot; 



&quot; Just so, Esq. Frink. I should think from the looks of 

 this field, that you were a stranger to the most remarka 

 ble manure ever invented for the improvement of the soil.&quot; 



u Oh ! it s a manure, is it ! &quot; 



&quot; Yes, sir-ee, a wonderful fertilizer, that will grow forty 

 bushels of wheat to the acre, one hundred of corn, and 

 from three to four hundred of potatoes. It is great on 

 grass, bringing up such poor, sandy land as this to a pro 

 duction of four tuns of hay to the acre. It has the hap 

 piest influence upon fruit trees, making the wood grow 

 rapidly, and adding four-fold to the fruit. By the use of 

 this Tafeu, the produce of a farm may be doubled the first 

 year, and quadrupled the second. Every man who pur 

 chases the article is sure to get rich.&quot; 



&quot;You re jest the man I ve been wanting to see this 

 many a year. You see I ve been farming on t, this well- 

 nigh thirty year, and I ha n t got all my land paid for yit. 

 I am all the time cramp d to git along, and if you ve got 

 a resate for making folks rich, ye see I shall go in.&quot; 



