The' ain't ben hardly a dozen changes in farm titles, 'cept by inher'tance or foreclosure, in thirty years.

So Billy P.didn't make no effort.

Int'rist's one o' them things that keeps right on nights an' Sundays.

He jest had the deeds made out and handed 'em over when the time came to settle.

The' was some village lots though that was clear, that fetched him in some money from time to time until they was all gone but one, an' that's the one Mis' Cullom lives on now.