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Updated: June 24, 2025
Washing water and drinking water were served out twice a day, at 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., an ordinary water-can being the allowance of the former, and a water-bottle that of the latter. The supply of washing water was very inadequate, and no hot water was ever available.
You, Parson, what have you to say?" "Please, sir," said Parson, "we're all awfully sorry. It was quite an accident, really." "What was an accident?" demanded Mr Parrett. "Why, you getting mauled about like " "Tell me, Parson," said Mr Parrett, pinching himself to keep himself grave, "was it an accident that your water-can was hung over the door and the string stretched across the bottom of it?"
Higher ground, too, and the last place they'll look come on!" The man with the water-can spilled it all, for the sake of his medley of possessions, and I had to send him all the way back for more. But we took up our new stand at last with the horses well hidden and enough to drink to last the day out, and then had to wait half an hour before any Kurds came back to the attack.
All the rest of his life he loved a green book best, for it was through this one that he found his way back again to that enchanted land that lay behind the peat-flames in the shadowy memory. Early in the morning he read it, with his head on the box of hardtack and his feet on the water-can. Twice he reluctantly tore himself from its pages and put it back where he had found it.
She had gone upstairs and could not on the instant leave her charge. He clothed himself in reproaches; but they did not warm him, and he was beginning to stamp his feet again when, happening to look down, he saw beside the water-can and partly hidden by its bulge, a packet about the size of a letter, but a little thicker.
Pash water, and " Then with a sudden fierce change of manner "Run, Mass' George run quick what gone long dem Injum?" He looked round wildly. "They are gone, Pomp," I said; and I shivered a little as I spoke. "We're quite safe now. Drink a little water." I raised his head, and held the refilled water-can to his lips, when he drank with avidity. "Are you better?" "Eh? Better, Mass' George?
The noise which Pierre had heard had been occasioned by Madame de Jonquiere, who whilst cleansing a basin had dropped the large zinc water-can. And, despite their torment, this had made the patients laugh, like the simple souls they were, rendered puerile by suffering.
The Aleut language now is a mongrel, made up largely of Russian, with many native words and a few of English. Jimmy proceeded to show that he meant to use in his "soup" some of these bulbs which they had brought down, for now he began to strip them down to the clean white inner portion and half filled their water-can with them, presently setting it on the fire to stew.
"Wait a moment," resumed Sister Hyacinthe; "you have the water-can between your legs it is in your way." "No, no, it isn't, I assure you. Let it be. It must always be somewhere." Then they both set their house in order as they expressed it, so that for a day and a night they might live with their patients as comfortably as possible.
After a while they've got so used to the band a-playin' an' the flags a-wavin' that it gets to be an old story, an' they think that's what it'll be right along, so they don't trouble to keep their eye peeled for the fella with the water-can, which he asked 'em to watch out for him.
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