well, folks, there she is -- the old hackett place.
perfectly all right.
she's no spring chicken -- -- but that's just what makes her such a buy.
this isn't just old timber, or a virgin stand oak grove other side of the trout stream, or a couple of fruit orchards.  you're buying a piece of american history.
first year she was built, general gates stopped right here to water his horses.
revolutionary war.
hundred and seventy come next april.
now i'm not trying to sell you anything -- all i'm saying is that one of these days someone with a little vision and imagination's goin' to come along, and just steal this place -- and i mean steal it.
mr. blandings, i know you can look at that house and just about picture what a couple of coats of paint and a little pointing up here and there can do to it.
and i guess i don't have to tell you, mrs. blandings, what a woman's touch could do to a place like this.
yes, sir, you've certainly got to visualize.
shall we go up and take a look at her?
hi, eph! what do you know, it's eph hackett, owner of the place!
eph, this is mr. and mrs. blandings -- from new york city.
why don't you folks just go out in back and take a look at the orchard?
nice timin', eph. think we got something here.
they were lookers -- this is the real thing.
they already offered ten.
fifteen.
i've got 'em measured. they're gonna take the place for -- eleven thousand.
odd kind of figure.
you see, mr. blandings, when you signed the purchase agreement it was subject to traced map attached. surveyed to an even thirty-one and a half acres.