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This was very spacious, and, of course, quite dry, and contained all they wished to put in. Ready also took care, by degrees, to fill the large water-butt full of water, and had fixed into the bottom a spigot for drawing the water off. "Well, Mr Seagrave," said Ready on the Saturday, "we have done a good many hard weeks' work lately, but this is the last of them.
There's a barrel of brandy open at the switch." The brandy-cask stood up-ended near the water-butt, and the men dipped out of both with cups. They were working now half naked at the wreck. The sun hung in a cloudless sky, the air was still, and along the right of way huge wrecking fires added to the scorching heat. Ten feet from the water-butt lay a flattened mass of rags.
We had one probationer who constructed a very ingenious water-butt for boys. Another had a scheme for clearing the streets of the people who get in the way. He got into trouble about some perambulators. Let me see your hands." They stopped at a lamp-post. "They are large, which is an advantage," said the president, fingering Andrew's palms; "but are they supple?"
It is a good thing to begin with your own back yard, including the water-butt, any puddles or open cesspools or cisterns, and any ornamental water gardens or lily-ponds. These latter should be stocked with fish or slightly oiled occasionally.
Young men out of story-books don't die of broken hearts, even if for a month or two they do feel like standing on their head in the water-butt." "Why, I was in love myself three times," explained Uncle Gutton, "before I married the old woman." Aunt Gutton sighed and said she was afraid gentlemen didn't feel these things as much as they ought to.
Micawber was obliged, in great trepidation, to run down to the water-butt in the backyard, and draw a basinful to lave her brow with. She presently revived, however, and was really pleased to see me.
It settled my hash at the public, said John, with a sigh. 'And then the last thing was the carpenter 'Our landlord? enquired Morris. 'That's the party, said John. 'He came nosing about the place, and then wanted to know where the water-butt was, and the bedclothes. I told him to go to the devil; so would you too, when there was no possible thing to say!
It was at Montrouge, on the road that runs around the city. "A small chalet, with garden," said the advertisement, printed on a placard which gave an almost exact idea of the dimensions of the property. The papers were new and of rustic design, the paint perfectly fresh; a water-butt planted beside a vine-clad arbor played the part of a pond.
I was used to sleep there. I slep' in the self-same water-butt where Punch was born. That's 'ow I come to scrape acquaintance with 'im. I'd bin away from 'ome in the country for a week's slidin'." "A week's what?" "Slidin'. Don't you know what sliding on the ice is?" "Oh! yes. Are you very fund of that?"
Then Ginx mildly entered protest. If there were any more, singles, twins or triplets, he would drown him, her or them, in the water-butt. This was immediately after the arrival of Number 12.
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