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it. You would have been frightened three years 

 ago if some one had told you that you would put 

 1106,000 into a farm of less than five hundred 

 acres." 



" You're right. Spending money on a farm is 

 like other forms of vice, hated, then tolerated, 

 then embraced. But seriously, a man would get 

 a bargain if he secured this property to-day for 

 what it has cost us. I wouldn't take a bonus 

 of $50,000 and give it up." 



" You'll hardly find a purchaser at that price, 

 and I'm glad you can't, for I want to live here 

 and nowhere else." 



