No one understood why SHE paid $7,000 for that brush-swallowed house — until she saw what was inside

MRS. FARMER

Six months after she paid seven thousand dollars for a house that the brush had swallowed whole, Iris Mecham turned down an offer of a hundred and twenty thousand dollars for the same piece of land, and the people who had laughed at her at the auction could not understand it. How could a place that