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"'Certainly, you are right, he said; 'and in yonder corner stood a large water-tub; there I used to sail my boat, which I had cut out myself it sailed so well; but soon I had to sail somewhere else.

Beside it stands a caravan like those which make their appearance at fairs, and that contains the family goods and chattels. A string of clothes hung out to dry, a water-tub and a rough, shaggy dog usually complete the picture." "But how can people live in the hut," asked Malcolm, "if the charcoal is burned in it? Ugh! I should think they'd choke."

"Well, I'm very thirsty, at all events," said William; "Juno, bring me a little water." Juno went to the water-tub to comply with William's request, and in a few moments afterwards came back in great consternation. "Oh, Massa! oh, Missy! no water; water all gone!" "Water all gone!" cried Ready and all of them in a breath. "Yes; not one little drop in the cask."

Then followed an ambulance waggon, the water-tub, two or three baggage waggons, and half a dozen men who had fallen out on the march, all of whom Dick saw as if it were part of a dream, which lasted, in a confused way, as he and his companion joined their own regiment, took their place at the head, and returned to their own quarters.

"No; I see them between the trees now; they are sitting round in a circle, and, I suppose, making speeches." "Well, I'm very thirsty, at all events," said William; "Juno, bring me a little water." Juno went to the water-tub to comply with William's request, and in a few moments afterwards came back in great consternation. "Oh, Massa! oh, Missy! no water; water all gone!"

Upon the morning in question there was a little procession from the oast-houses down to the gardens in the hollow, where, in a sheltered bower, a fire was lit under a huge copper, which had led the way; a great water-tub brought fluid from the muddy pond, and a kind of hot soup was made, bucketfuls of which were mixed with tubs of water; the suction-pipe of the engine was inserted in these, the hose and branch attached, and the slaughter of the insects began down between the rows of hop-poles, where the blackened, blight-covered hops clustered, twined, and hung.

My own hair-comb was in love with me, she lost all her teeth from the heart-ache; yes, I have lived to see much of that sort of thing; but I am extremely sorry for the garter I mean the girdle that went into the water-tub. I have much on my conscience, I want to become white paper!"

The grandmother was silent, and Heidi now began to give her a lively description of her life with the grandfather, and of the days she spent on the mountain with the goats, and then went on to tell her of what she did now during the winter, and how her grandfather was able to make all sorts of things, seats and stools, and mangers where the hay was put for Little Swan and Little Bear, besides a new large water-tub for her to bathe in when the summer came, and a new milk-bowl and spoon, and Heidi grew more and more animated as she enumerated all the beautiful things which were made so magically out of pieces of wood; she then told the grandmother how she stood by him and watched all he did, and how she hoped some day to be able to make the same herself.

Her mind sank back into what it had been in her childhood, when she had hidden herself in the lumber-room, or behind the water-tub, for many hours, to make the family uneasy, because she had been punished, in the days when she bore every infliction that her father dared to try, with apparent unconcern, rather than show to watchful eyes that she was moved, in the days when the slightest concession would dissolve her stubbornness in an instant, but when, to get rid of a life of contradiction, she had had serious thoughts of cutting her throat, had gone to the kitchen door to get the carving-knife, and had been much disappointed to find the servants at dinner, and the knife-tray out of reach.

That did not come out to a five-pounder; and, getting disgusted, he blew up the fire to a white heat around the metal mass, when, yanking it out with his tongs, he flung it into the water-tub hard by, and cried out: "'Well, if I can't make anything of you, I'll make a fizzle anyhow! "Well, general, I am afeared that that's what we'll make of the Dutch Gap Canal."