MOUNTAINS


Some real-estate dealers in British Columbia were accused of having

victimized English and Scotch settlers by selling to them (at long

range) fruit ranches which were situated on the tops of mountains. It is

said that the captain of a steamboat on Kootenay Lake once heard a great

splash in the water. Looking over the rail, he spied the head of a man

who was swimming toward his boat. He hailed him. "Do you know," said the

swimmer, "this is the third time to-day that I've fallen off that bally

old ranch of mine?"



More

;