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The walk along the shady street and through the grassy lane to the gate at the foot of the hill was as pleasant as a walk could be that summer day. Rosalind kept sedately by her grandmother's side, and the face under the drooping hat was grave. Behind them walked Martin with some garden tools and a watering-pot.

So absorbed was he in his thoughts, I remember, that he stumbled over the watering-pot, upset its contents, and deluged both our feet and the garden path. Inside the house we were met by the elderly Cornish housekeeper, Mrs. Porter, who, with the aid of a young girl, looked after the wants of the family. She readily answered all Holmes's questions. She had heard nothing in the night.

This almost imperceptible symptom, and the rather ill-humored look, foretold a storm. Do you not see that you are wetting the floor?" Aline turned around and looked at the scolder for a moment; then, placing her watering-pot upon the floor, she darted toward the divan like a kitten that has just received a blow from its mother's paw and feels authorized to play with her.

The latter saw that another employe was coming toward him, holding a lantern in his right hand, that swung back and forth as he walked, casting the light on the platform of the station in a series of zigzags, like those described by the shower from a watering-pot. "Is there a restaurant or a bedroom in the station of Villahorrenda?" said the traveller to the man with the lantern.

Seeing that her sister-in-law did not reply to her, Aline took this silence from confusion for an expression of bad temper, and at once became angry in her turn. "You are very cross to-day," said she; "good-by, I do not want your books." She threw the volumes of Waverley upon the sofa, picked up her watering-pot and went out, closing the door with a loud bang.

But in picking it, what had the damned scoundrelly Jesuit done but drop it drop it crash on the sharp spout of a watering-pot, so that it received a deep gash in its firm pale rotundity, and was henceforth but a bruised, ruined, fallen melon? "The old man's rage was fearful in its impotence he shook, spluttered and strangled with it.

"I beg, Mlle. de Coulanges, that you will not trouble yourself," said Mrs. Somers, haughtily. "Surely there are servants enough in this house whose business it is to remember these things." "Yes," said Emilie, "it is their business, but it is my pleasure. You must not, indeed you must not, take my watering-pot from me!"

About the sides of the gallery are arranged hot and cold water-pipes with faucets and hose connections, the hose being terminated by a spray apparatus similar to the nose of a watering-pot.

And when he heard footsteps advancing on the gravel, although he turned his eyes in that direction, it was with no thought either for defence or flight. The new-comer was a large, coarse, and very sordid personage, in gardening clothes, and with a watering-pot in his left hand.

Take your watering-pot to the tinsmith and have him fit it out with an extension spout one that can be slipped on to the end of the spout that comes with the pot. Let this be at least two feet in length.