Wouldn't Need It

The Syracuse Standard tells of an amusing corresponderse that recently took place between a Wisconsin farmer aud a local boiler flrm. The farmer wrote as f ollows : Debe Sibs- I hav a 1,000 akora of trees that I want eut. lm pore tmt lm willing to pay too handred dolers fer an engin that will do my work. The boiler flrm saw that the engine pecessary to accomplish the devastation of his virginal foresfc would cost $3,000, and they informed him tü tbis effect. A week passed and then the following pithy epistle came from the Wisconiin woods : Debe Sirs- What in h- 1 wud I want of an engin or biler if I hed $a,000?