“The regular practise of the Christian is exceptional with the
world,” says a writer in the _Pacific Monthly_.
“Out in Kansas when the bottom dropt out of the great boom in
real estate some years ago, men found it harder to get rid of
property than to acquire it. A lawyer going through the country
one day met an old friend leading a reluctant cow toward town.
Inquiry brought out the information that the cow had been
secured in exchange for a city lot. ‘And do you know,’ said the
new owner of the bovine, ‘that I turned a neat trick on the old
granger! He can’t read a word, and in the deed I worked off two
lots on him instead of one.’”
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