TOM’S EXPERIENCE 
Ro Kel ae 
A NEIGHBORLY CALL. 
66 (OOD morning, Tom. I hear you are going to 
Dakota next spring. Is it true?” 
‘Yes. I have made up my mind to go and see if | 
can’t get a farm of my own.  [ have been working 
for other people as long as I care to.” 
‘Well, it seems to me you had better let well 
enough alone. You are comfortably fixed here, and 
ean get all the land you want to farm on shares, and 
in the course of time get a farm of your own.” 
“Yes, [am doing well as things go here; that is, 
I am making a living and a little more each year, 
but as for my getting any land of my own here, 
where it is worth from eighty toa hundred dollars an 
acre, I would stand a good chance of dying of old age 
before I could get enough for a farm.” 
THE FREEZING POINT. 
“But you and your family will freeze to death in 
Dakota. Why.only yesterday I saw in the paper that 
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