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The auctioneer then mounted the steps, read the Cranston warranty deed of the farm, as copied from the county records, describing the premises, lines, and corners. "A fine piece of property, which can soon be put into good shape," he added. "How much am I offered for it?" After a pause, Zachary Lurvey, the owner of Lurvey's Lumber Mills, started the bidding by offering $1,000.
The agent appealed to the school board of the town, which consisted of three members, two clergymen and a lawyer, and the following day the board appeared at the schoolhouse. After conferring with the master, they proceeded formally to expel old Zack Lurvey from school. Old Zack, however, hotly defended his right to get an education, and a wordy combat ensued.
Lumbermen are often "neighborly" with each other in such matters, and with John Lurvey the old Squire made a kind of running contract for three hundred cords of white-birch "bolts" from a lakeside lot. Each one made a memorandum of the agreement in his pocket note-book; and as each trusted the other, nothing more exact or formal was thought necessary.
I haven't a doubt we can get a hundred thousand feet of bird's-eye out of that lot." "If Lurvey had known that," said I, "he wouldn't have stopped bidding at two thousand!" "You may be sure he wouldn't," the old Squire remarked, with a smile. "As for the quarreling heirs," said Addison, "they'll be well satisfied to get that much for the farm."
Several warrants were drawn, all of which, on the ground that they were legally dubious, the resident justice of the peace refused to sign. "I am not going to get the town mixed up in a lawsuit for damages," said the justice. "Lurvey is a doughty fighter at law, as well as physically, and he has got the money to fight with." The proceedings hung fire for a week or more.
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