Of course, he sold most of the lots--there aren't any vacant ones, and
there used to be heaps of 'em when I was a boy. Another thing I don't
think he ought to allow a good many of these people bought big lots
and they built houses on 'em; then the price of the land kept getting
higher, and they'd sell part of their yards and let the people that
bought it build houses on it to live in, till they haven't hardly any
of 'em got big, open yards any more, and it's getting all too much
built up. The way it used to be, it was like a gentleman's country
estate, and that's the way my grandfather ought to keep it. He lets
these people take too many liberties: they do anything they want to."
"But how could he stop them?" Lucy asked, surely with reason. "If he
sold them the land, it's theirs, isn't it?"
George remained serene in the face of this apparently difficult
question. "He ought to have all the trades-people boycott the
families that sell part of their yards that way. All he'd have to do
would be to tell the trades-people they wouldn't get any more orders
from the family if they didn't do it.
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