story .... There were, and are, many old houses in the county, aban doned because of oad roads or because people have moved away. Tin- one I found was large enough but not too large. <The house now is 40 feet long, 16 wide ' The size of rooms didn't need to be changed so there was no waste of timber. The timber was sound heart pine. The in terior heart or clear pine ceiling was an inch thick, and there was no sign of termites. Fortu nately the interior had never been painted.

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