A Connecticut Township. 1 1 1 



" I did n't know that you owned so 

 much land, Jim." 



" I don't own none o' that land," said 

 Jim ; " but you see it 's this way. Them 

 club fellers got a notion of comin' over 

 to this brook, so I went and stuck up a 

 lot of signs." 



" But how about the owners?" 



" Well, you see how it is ; the land up 

 here 's mortgaged 'way up, and the men 

 what 's on the farms thinks that the mort- 

 gagers put up them signs, and the mort- 

 gagers thinks that the men what 's on the 

 farms put 'em up, and bein' a leetle skeered 

 of each other, they don't ask no questions." 



" So you did not have to pay any- 

 thing?" 



" No ; nothin'. They aint no money up 

 this way to pay for things nohow, so we 

 hev to do the best we kin without money. 

 Money aint nec'ssary fer folks with heads 

 on 'em. It 's fer dudes. Nothin' agin 

 you fellers cause cause praps you 

 haint got much on it. They was a feller 

 up here had two hundred and forty-six 

 dollars saved up, burnin' charcoal, and he 



