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The Octopus

CHAPTER III
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it reads, 'The lands are not uniform in price, but are offered at various figures from $2.50 upward per acre.

Usually land covered with tall timber is held at $5.00 per acre, and that with pine at $10.00.

Most is for sale at $2.50 and $5.00." "When you come to read that carefully," hazarded old Broderson, "it--it's not so VERY REASSURING.

'MOST is for sale at two-fifty an acre,' it says.

That don't mean 'ALL,' that only means SOME.


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