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He would follow the water-mains, creeping along streets, picking out and punishing a house here and a house there where they did not boil their drinking-water, creeping into the wells of the mineral-water makers, getting washed into salad, and lying dormant in ices. He would wait ready to be drunk in the horse-troughs, and by unwary children in the public fountains.
"It's them buses," he complained, "they won't stop when I halt 'em." "But why do you want to stop them? They can't poison the horse-troughs." "It's me duty," he said. "There's one comin'." A bus, coming the opposite way, bore down upon us with an unwieldy rush and roar the last bus, in a hurry to get to bed. "You'll see," he said pessimistically. "'Alt! 'Alt, there!"
The first pile visible contained only a cord or two; we took this and several posts that had been fixed in the ground to mark the locality. When this supply was burned we cut up our landing planks and all the spare bits of wood we could find. A court of inquiry was held over the horse-troughs, but they were considered too much water-soaked for our purpose.
I knew where I was by the smells and the sounds on the road the smell of the lines of picketed horses behind the railings, the sharp and sudden stamp of the sick ones in the wooden stables, and, later on, the glitter of water in the horse-troughs. I thought: "I am not afraid.... Is it because I am more educated, or have less imagination?" "Halt! Who goes there?"
Better a dug-out log horse-trough, overflowing through a notch in its side, as an ornament to the best-kept village green, than the most elaborate pitcher-spilling nymph that was ever cast in an iron-foundry. So far as the mere construction work of public drinking-fountains and horse-troughs is concerned, not much need be said except in connection with the overflow.
He would follow the water-mains, creeping along streets, picking out and punishing a house here and a house there where they did not boil their drinking-water, creeping into the wells of the mineral water makers, getting washed into salad, and lying dormant in ices. He would wait ready to be drunk in the horse-troughs, and by unwary children in the public fountains.
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