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東山[?]者 is about the best I can do, I'll ask around if no-one has any better ideas, if it is 東 it would be quite a Ming way of writing it...

Asked a friend who's a calligraphy aficionado, he thinks the third character will be 樵: "原意为砍山翁意，后文人常自以樵公自喻也" - literati would often refer to themselves as woodcutters, with a sense of working away in the mountains.

Is it possible the first character is 莱 rather than 東? Found this: 老家浚县——莱山樵者石崖居士，谨言郭东山 - 今日头条

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莱山樵者石崖居士是谁？

经查，莱山樵者石崖居士最大的可能，就是1503年弘治十六年任浚县知县的郭东山。

So I think it reads 莱山樵者, who was a man called Guo Dongshan, a Ming county magistrate who wrote poetry using this sobriquet, which means something like "Hermit of the Cliffs, the Woodcutter of Laishan."

ETA though it does look much more like 东 than 莱, didn't think to ask my friend about that!