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He afterward recalled one little incident of their walk through the frosty night, and repeated it to Anderson Crow with more awe than seemed necessary. They were passing the town pump on their way to the post-office. The street was dark and deserted. "Gosh!" said Ed, "I bet the town pump's froze up!" "It doesn't seem very cold," she said brightly. "Gee! it's below zero!
From the pump, another pipe and the girl's pumping asy, for she's to wash to-morrow, and knows nothing about it; and so the big veshel she fills with water, wondering what ails the water that it don't come and I set one boy and another to help her and the pump's bewitched, and that's all: so that's settled. Pat. And cliverly. Oh! counshillor, we are a match for the shuper any day or night. O'Bla.
The plumber previously sent up on receipt of the Adjutant's note came round the corner, and, seeing his officer, stopped and saluted. "That there pump's all right, sir. There was a dead rat in it. They will leave the cover off the well." He perceived the horrified Smithson, and fixed him with the frozen eye. "Right. Then you can rejoin your section."
Ask a plumber who is repairing your pump, how the water is raised in it, and he replies "By suction." Recalling the ability which he has to suck up water into his mouth through a tube, he is certain that he understands the pump's action. To inquire what he means by suction, seems to him absurd.
But they were thankful afterward all right, all right those greasy Spaniards. D'I tell you 'bout the way I " "I don't mind their kiddin'," Tom interrupted; "I had a lot of that on the ship. And I know they'll be glad when the pump's running. I was thinkin' about something else. Come on, let's go out and hike." He always called those little restricted walks about the enclosure, hiking.
Now, Nickleby, come; tumble up, will you? Nicholas needed no further admonition, but 'tumbled up' at once, and proceeded to dress himself by the light of the taper, which Mr Squeers carried in his hand. 'Here's a pretty go, said that gentleman; 'the pump's froze. 'Indeed! said Nicholas, not much interested in the intelligence. 'Yes, replied Squeers. 'You can't wash yourself this morning.
But better than all, he saw, between the gate and the building, a red pump! Then the blindness and pain descended again, and he stumbled on more by faith than by sight; blundering through the half-open gate, his precarious course directed wholly by the pump's exceeding redness, which shone like a beacon fire ahead.
"Hoo d'ye think that?" said Ribekka. "Cause it wudda lookit so fine Izik an' Ribekka, d'ye see?" an' they nickered an' leuch like a' that. "An' I wudda been Ribekka at the wall," said Beek. "Exackly," said Jeems; "altho' this auld pump's hardly the kind o' wall they had in thae days. I hope there's nae horn-gollochs aboot it."
For if, simplifying the conception, he supposes the tube of the pump to be a square inch in section, then the atmospheric pressure of 15 pounds per square inch on the water in the well, can raise the water in the tube to such height only that the entire column of it weighs 15 pounds. Having been thus enlightened about the pump's action, the action of a barometer becomes intelligible.
We might as well be and buried, too, here in Poketown for it is right next door to a cemetery for deadness, I do believe. You know what it was when you was lucky enough to get out of it twenty years ago. Well, it is worse now. There has been nothing new in Poketown since you went away, excepting the town pump's been painted once.
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