Alvin Baker heard it over to Ostable.

The feller that told him got it from somebody else, who got it from another somebody, and so on.

There's talk about good prices bein' offered and, accordin' to Alvin, Ostable folks are pretty excited.

Elnathan Mullet, who owns that strip below your house, knows somethin' about it, I think.

I shouldn't wonder if he'd had an offer, or a hint, or somethin'.