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A cellar should often be whitewashed, to keep it sweet. It should have a drain to keep it perfectly dry, as standing water in a cellar is a sure cause of disease in a family. It is very dangerous to leave decayed vegetables in a cellar. Many a fever has been caused by the poisonous miasm thus generated. In this, articles are kept cool. It should be cleaned once a week.
I told the people yesterday I wouldn't be bound by my promise a day longer. He must put the screw on Henslowe, and if Henslowe dawdles, why we shall just drain and repair and sink for a well ourselves. I can find the money somehow. At present we get all our water from one of the farms on the brow.
He had foreseen an immediate demand for money, but not a permanent drain on his scant resources. He no longer believed what Zeena had told him of the supposed seriousness of her state: he saw in her expedition to Bettsbridge only a plot hatched between herself and her Pierce relations to foist on him the cost of a servant; and for the moment wrath predominated.
On vast green plains there will be animals to graze and there will be animals to prey on them. So the grazing things will band together in herds for self-defense and reproduction. And where the ground is covered with broad-leaved plants, such plants will shelter innumerable tiny creatures, and some of them will be burrowers. So rain will drain quickly into those burrowings and not make streams.
"You ought to have gone to the doctor, or had him, same as Mr Marston did." "Tchah!" ejaculated Hickathrift. "Why, he had no bones broken. Doctors don't understand bone-setting." "Who says so?" "The bone-setter." "Well, is it getting better, Hicky?" "Oh yes! It ar'n't very bad. Going down to the drain?" "Yes. Mr Marston's found a curious great piece of wood, and the men are digging it out."
"Only the boy," rumbled the man in the drain. The words woke Kit to his position. With a ghastly effort he confirmed his mind and faced the situation. There was one thing for it to make for the opening, and trust his heels. Better to be shot down in the open, anyway, than killed in the drain like a rabbit. He turned round. As he did so, a hand appeared at the opening, and swept back the tamarisk.
It's these jelly-fish that go camping with a whole savings bank in their pockets and no shovel to dig a drain ditch with that's the kind that think about money! You make me sick. Turn your pockets inside out, Alf, and let them see what you've got go ahead!" All the while Mr. Ellsworth kept saying, "Shh, shh, Roy," but what did I care? Even he couldn't stop me.
So I spent a considerable time in trying to evade these, and was at last fortunate in discovering a storm drain leading between high walls up a steep bank into an orchard, through which I was able to slip away unseen by the sentries guarding the front of the village. I climbed up by such paths and goat tracks as I could find leading in the direction desired.
And after a moment, "God help you!" he added fervently. "God help and guide you, Madame!" She turned on him suddenly, fiercely. "Is that all you can do?" she cried. "Is that all the help you can give? You are a man. Go down, lead them out; drive off these cowards who drain our life's blood, who trade on a woman's heart! On them! Do something, anything, rather than lie in safety here here!"
Verily his faithful heart was warmed as it were by the happiness which surrounded her as with a glory, and indeed it was not without some doubts that I saw the worthy man, who was wont to be so sober, raise his glass again and again to drink to Ann, whether she marked him or not, and drain his glass each time in her honor.
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