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Near by other soldiers were turning up a strip of fresh earth against the snow, which looked like a rip in the frosting of a chocolate cake. "How do you like this kind of war?" we asked. It is the kind that irrigationists and subway excavators make. "We've grown to be very fond of it," was the answer. "It is a cultivated taste, which becomes a passion with experience.
Consequent also upon this silting-up process the banks of the rivers are higher than the surrounding country, and there is a gentle drop in the level of the land as it recedes from the river. The object of the ancient irrigationists was to tap the rivers at the higher part of this plain, and then, by means of great canals, lead the water where they wanted it.
"Perhaps you would not, Miss Chuckie, if you could see all the results of a successful water system." "You mean, turning our range into farms for hundreds of irrigationists," she replied. "I suppose I am selfish, but I am thinking of what it would mean to Daddy. Just consider how it will affect us. For years this land has been our own for miles and miles!"
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