"No, no! Not so! You
take sixty-eight and three quarters under the law. Mother's
proposition is made ONLY to the boys, and only on condition that
they settle here and now; because she feels responsible to them
for her share in rearing them and starting them out as she did.
By accepting her proposition you lose eight hundred and seventy-
five dollars, approximately. The boys lose on the same basis,
figuring at fifty dollars and acre, six thousand five hundred and
sixty-two dollars and fifty cents, plus their work and taxes, and
minus what Mother will turn in, which will be about, let me see --
It will take a pool of fifty-four thousand dollars to pay each of
us six thousand. If Mother raises thirty-five thousand, plus sale
money and notes, it will leave about nineteen thousand for the
boys, which will divide up at nearly two thousand five hundred for
them to lose, as against less than a thousand for us. That should
be enough to square matters with any right-minded woman, even in
our positions. It will give us that much cash in hand, it will
leave the boys, some of the younger ones, in debt for years, if
they hold their land.
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