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Every morning, while Turnbull was still half asleep on his iron bedstead which was lifted half-way up the wall and clamped to it with iron, four sluices or metal mouths opened above him at the four corners of the chamber and washed it white of any defilement. Turnbull's solitary soul surged up against this sickening daily solemnity.

Something had gashed and cut the great sides cruelly and the blood was spurting out. The gray ooze of the undermost sea lay in the monstrous wrinkles of the back, and poured away in sluices.

Oh, you've sure earned yore laugh." If hatred could have killed with a look Bob would have been a dead man. "You blew up the dam," charged Doble. "Me! Why, it ain't my dam. Didn't Brad give you orders to open the sluices to make you a swimmin' hole?" The searchers began to straggle in, bringing with them a sadly drenched and battered lot of gunmen.

And we saw the water-tender open the lock and the weir sluices. It's quite easy, isn't it, Dicky? 'As easy as kiss your hand, said Dicky; 'and what's more, I know where he keeps the other thing he opens the sluices with. I votes we do. 'Do let's, if we can, Noel said, 'and the bargees will bless the names of their unknown benefactors.

Sometimes the matter from the under-current box is led back to the main sluice. Rock-Sluices. Large sluices are frequently paved with stone, which makes a more durable false bottom than wood, and catches fine gold better than riffle-bars. The stone bottoms have another advantage that it is not so easy for thieves to come and clean up at night, as is often done in riffle-bar sluices.

"The first thing to be done is to capture the coal-yards," he said, taking in the situation at a glance. "Caesar, let the coal-yards be your care. Alcibiades will take the Three Musketeers, and by night will make a detour to the other side of the palace and open the sluices of the vitriol reservoir, which I understand run into the Styx.

In those days there was no factory nor any town house, nothing but the great farm, with its scanty-bearing fields, in which could be seen a few herd of cattle, and one or two farm laborers. The rushing of the water through the sluices, and the scream of the wild ducks, were almost the only signs of active life at Silkborg.

That night the sluices of the heavens were opened, and the blood was washed from the grass in Lindell Grove. The rain descended in floods on the distracted city, and the great river rose and flung brush from Minnesota forests high up on the stones of the levee. Down in the long barracks weary recruits, who had stood and marched all the day long, went supperless to their hard pallets.

"Yes, I felt quite like a criminal to-day," Geoffrey laughed, "when I came in muddy up to the waist, after working down there by the sluices. I believe when the Spaniards open fire these people will be more distracted by the dust caused by falling tiles and chimneys than by any danger of their lives." Great difficulties beset the Duke of Parma at the commencement of the siege.

By sluicing the dams, and prohibiting fishing in sluices, or trapping, or anything that should bar their progress, I do not see why the shad should not return. The shad have never returned to the up-country.