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Updated: May 7, 2025
"The buckets will run down into the well upside down, come up on the other side filled, run to the top of the tower, and dump the water into a reservoir tank and go down again. Thus I pump water without a pump in other words, with a pumpless pump! "Simple! Efficient! Nothing to get out of order no valves, no pistons, no air-chambers nothing whatever!" finished Hawkins triumphantly. "Wonderful!"
"Now, don't stand there grinding out your cheap wit, Griggs," snapped Hawkins. "How the dickens are we going to escape being soaked?" Down, down, down, down, went the ladder. "Well," I said, thoughtfully, "the bottom usually falls out of your schemes, Hawkins. If the bottom will only fall out of the water department of your pumpless pump within the next half-minute, all will be lovely."
"Well," I said, leaning on the gate and regarding the affair, "I imagine that it is the common or domestic windmill." "And your imagination, as usual, is all wrong," smiled Hawkins. "That, Griggs, is the Hawkins Pumpless Pump!" "What!" I gasped, vaulting into the road. "Another invention!" "Now, don't be a clown, Griggs," snapped the inventor. "It is " "Wait.
But an explanation of this to Hawkins would merely have precipitated another conflict. I chose what seemed to be the lesser evil; I elected to examine the pumpless pump. "All right," said the inventor happily. "Come along, Griggs. You're the only one that knows anything about this.
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