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Ha Ha
I got a laugh out of this.
This is a description, written in 1938.
Beginning at a stake in the state road at the corner of the garden now cultivated by the said Artie G. Green and ourselves, and running thence with the state road up the creek to the first bridge; thence with the middle of the branch up to the upper end of the cow lot, as now fenced in; thence with the division line between Gibsons, Lulu H. Robinson and ourselves to the division line between our land and lands of C.L. Bird; and running thence with the Bird line, a sufficient distance to give him 1/3 of the lands now owned by us, including the former schoolhouse lots; and thence a straight line to an iron pin at the lower side of a road leading off the mountain; thence to the upper edge of the gardens at a graveyard; and thence with a line between the gardens now cultivated by us and the said Artie G. Green to the place of beginning. In other words the said Artie G. Green is to have the former schoolhouse lot on the opposite side of the state road, as a part of the land given to him, and the schoolhouse and the parcel given to him as above described shall constitute 1/3 of the land owned by us.
I like the ‘in other words’ part.
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