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Updated: July 12, 2025
Once he went out to post a letter in the Grove before midnight and they locked him out and looked at him from the window of the front bedroom and defied him to enter, and he skipped round to the back and climbed up by the water-butt on to the drainpipe of the bathroom, and from the drainpipe, perilously, in through the window of his study, where they found him putting hair-brushes in Norah's bed.
So they tried other ways, and brought him flowers till the place where he sat was surrounded by little fading bunches of clover and roses and Canterbury bells. And then Phyllis had an idea. She beckoned mysteriously to the others and drew them into the back yard, and there, in a concealed spot, between the pump and the water-butt, she said:
"No, no, no, it's all right good-bye," said everyone. And a silence fell as he went slowly round the water-butt and the green yard-gate shut behind him. The silence was broken by Eliza. "Give me up!" she said. "Give me up to break my heart in a prison cell!" There was a sudden splash, and a round wet drop lay on the doorstep. "Thunder shower," said Jimmy; but it was a tear from Eliza.
Mrs. Peerybingle, going out into the raw twilight, and clicking over the wet stones in a pair of pattens that worked innumerable rough impressions of the first proposition in Euclid all about the yard Mrs. Peerybingle filled the kettle at the water-butt.
My little sharp-witted companion then willingly gave me an account of all he knew about the early history of my doggie. The story was not long, but it began, so to speak, at the beginning. Punch, or Dumps, as I continued to call him, had been born in a dry water-butt which stood in a back yard near the Thames. This yard was, or had been, used for putting away lumber.
Before they had made an end of this refreshment it was time to be at work. A bucket of water for present necessities was withdrawn from the water-butt, which was then emptied and rolled before the kitchen fire to dry; and the two brothers set forth on their adventure under a starless heaven. Whether mankind is really partial to happiness is an open question.
I even remembered the number of gallons of each, so well had my teacher a great statistician drilled me in "liquid measure;" and could I only have known what sort of wine had once been carried inside of my water-butt, I could have told its measure in a moment.
If we're so awfully dirty, we'd better find another house that's got four bathrooms already, and sell White Ladies." "Sell White Ladies?" cried Jill. Berry nodded. "Not only lock and stock, but barrel too. Yes," he added bitterly, "the old water-butt must go." "Look here," said I. "It occurs to me that this isn't a case for a letter. We ought to go and choose a bath properly."
There appeared to be no want of provisions on board, for even in the cabin a couple of hams and cheese and a cask of biscuit were found, with several other articles; and on deck was a water-butt, which, having been tightly bunged and well secured, had escaped being washed away, or filled with salt water. All hands now set to work to get up spars from below, and canvas, and rope.
It did not lie in the line which would lead to the hatchway, and that was the line in which my tunnel ought to point. I was pretty certain as to the direction of the hatch, for I remembered how I passed from it to the water-butt when I first came into the hold. I had struck sharply to the right, and gone in a nearly direct line for the end of the butt.
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