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Meanwhile, I see a pump; while you go to the cows I will stay here and wash my hands of them." "Hold! you seem a sharp fellow, and certainly no fool. I have a son, a good smart chap, but stuck up; crows it over us all; thinks no small beer of himself. You'd do me a service, and him too, if you'd let him down a peg or two."
As yet, they were like separate skirmishers, sent out in advance; their mighty force not yet gathered and rolled together in such terrible sheet and volume as raged beneath. She reached the corner where hung the rope. Close by, was the faucet in the main pipe fed by the force pump. Underneath it, lay a coil of hose, attached and ready. She turned the faucet, and laid hold of the long rope.
Her book gained her such a circle of admirers that it is said her second work was expected as eagerly as a novel from Scott. The chief building was the Pump Room, on the south side of the street, near where the entrance to Gainsborough Gardens now is. The first recorded entertainment here was on August 18, 1701, when a concert was given.
Rather, she looked out on something in which she had never shared, could not by any chance imagine herself sharing. The south windows were open. Airs of May bore the soft talking. "Oh, Bobby, will you pump while I hold this?" And again: "Now wait till I rinse." And again: "You needn't be so glum" the village salutation signifying kindly attention.
At the end of all which, it returned once more into the right-hand pump as before, to pursue the same course again, &c., &c.
I considered for a moment or two, and then recollected that there was nothing in my engagements for the next day to prevent my complying with the old lady's request. My life for the last week had been occupied in taking the baths and the waters at regular intervals, with the daily diversion of the Pump Room concert at three.
When the sucker in a pump is drawn, the space it filled in the tube is certainly the same whether any other body follows the motion of the sucker or not: nor does it imply a contradiction that, upon the motion of one body, another that is only contiguous to it should not follow it.
"How?" sez I. "Well, I'll tell you." And he went on proudly, as if glad to git a chance to show off how fur seem' and eqinomical he wuz, and to recover from the machinness that had settled down on him like a dark mantilly, while we discussed the suller and pump attachment. "I got them bricks at a bargain.
Lesly rigged the pumps, but the starboard one only could be made to work. From that time there were but two businesses aboard from the pump to the helm. The gale lasted two days and a night, the brig running under close-reefed topsails, we being afraid to shorten sail lest we might be overtaken by some pursuing vessel, so strong was the terror of our prison upon us.
One of the persons I'm that is, we're waitin' for has done more for our beautiful village than all the rest of us put together. There ain't no need for me to name him. A right up-to-date town pump, a lovely memorial window, a " "How about that harbor appropriation?" cried a voice from the settees. Mr. Simpson was taken aback. His face flushed and he angrily turned toward the interrupter.
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