"Why hasn't he written in so long?" Jack wondered aloud. His childhood friend, Walter, an old farmer with whom Jack once spent a summer hadn't written in six months. When Jack left the farm, he promised Walter to write, and they each wrote a letter at least once a week. He got worried and came to check after a while, and he was nervous. He hadn't visited in almost fifteen years.
He walked into the farm hoping to see his friend, but the sight of the neglected farm filled his heart with dread. Walter never would have let the farm get so bad unless something very bad had happened. The old man loved the farm. He put his heart and soul into the place.
A small portly man walked onto the farm, and then ran over to Jack. "What are you doing here?" he yelled. "The owner of this farm died. You can't just waltz in here whenever you feel like it!"
"I'm sorr-wait, Walter is dead?" Jack asked.
"Huh? You knew him, and you didn't know he, he's gone?" the man said. "Who are you, anyway?''
"My name's Jack. Who are you?"
"I'm the mayor of this town. Wait. Jack. Where have I heard that name before? Ah! On the will! Walter left the farm for you. If you can prove you are Jack then you can have it."
Jack held out a letter postmarked a week before Walter died. The mayor looked at the letter, and then gave it back.
"Okay, Jack, can you tell me how you met the old man?"
"Well, when I was a kid my family went on a vacation, I got lost and..." Jack went on to describe getting lost on Walter's farm, being found by the old farmer, his invitation to stay, playing with the animals, and the other boys from the village, and a girl he met on Mother's Hill, his correspondence with the old man, and how he promised to return and visit the girl someday.
"Oh, he mentioned you once. I never got your name though. Anyway, he left you the farm, so if you want it..." He shrugged.
"Of course I want it!" said Jack quickly. "I had the time of my life on that farm."
"Well," said the mayor, "It'll take a lot of work, but if you work hard then you can make the old man proud." The mayor gave Jack a map of the town, took him on a tour of the town, some books to keep his records in, and he Jack went to bed, so he could be ready for the next day.
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