College of William and Mary - Colonial Echo Yearbook (Williamsburg, VA)

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J. N. HiLL.MAN, Xdali K., fur slicii-i, licin:; llial certain iinrtiuii, jiieee, or parcel of existeuce situate ill the State of ' • larried Blessedness, described and linmidcd as follows, to-wit: Coiiiinencing at the Soiiihwcsi and I ' liiiuing East, North. West, and Soiitii ihe distance of two fe; ' t to poinr of iM ' ginnini;-, and rising vertically the height ni a Hill to which is adiicil ihc syniliol id ' a man, JKinndrd in ihe Xorlh. Sonth, East, and West hy two Hill coniiiaie ions, one licing a lialiy Hill. ' Idir almvc nanicil ]iiccc or |iariM ' l (d ' existence is further drscrilied as licing the same parcel of existence conN ' cycd to the aforesaid hrst-nanied Hill comiianion liy a legal act hearing date -Innc l ' S, 19()(), and recorded in a minister ' s note hook, on the cash reccijit page, in dollar ($) culunm Xo. 5. W. E. IvOACii, a twodicadcd danns ; ])art hsh and part insect; a hsh of the carp fanuly, hnt, nn- like others of its family, can live out of water, bites at everything except itself; is very easily canght ; its predigested brain, used daily (except Sundays), is a sure cnre for Dues suffering with ■■gang-green; an insect with four wings, but somewhat eecenrric in the use of them, jierambulating itself on two d ' them, and sawing the air with the other two; a deadly enemy of the panti-y, and a faithfnl ally with his bed. Behold what a freak Xaturc hath wrought ! Vet, tn all sad words of TONGrK or jion, the sad- dest are, coidd it ha c been — WORSE 11