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Being strengthened with those fifty thousand dollars, Storri sought an ancient surveyor. Did the ancient one possess an accurate map of Washington? a map that showed every public building and park and street-railway and water-main and sewer, all done to the final fraction of an inch? Storri's Czar has asked for such; his Czar who so admired the Americans and their beautiful Capital!
It did not strike her that 'Dolph who in an ordinary way should have been bounding ahead and anon bounding back to gyrate on his hind legs and encourage her preferred to trot ahead some thirty or forty yards and wait for her to overtake him; nor that, when she came up, he avoided her eyes, pretending that here a doorstep, there a grating or water-main absorbed his curiosity.
A man might just, as well have tried to heave up a two-foot water-main; and Kaa lay still, puffing with quiet amusement. Then the regular evening game began the Boy in the flush of his great strength, and the Python in his sumptuous new skin, standing up one against the other for a wrestling match a trial of eye and strength.
Amongst the sombre wreckage beneath, running water flashed and glistened, and far away across the space, out of the midst of a vague vast mass of buildings, there thrust the twisted end of a water-main, two hundred feet in the air, thunderously spouting a shining cascade. And everywhere great multitudes of people.
Amongst the sombre wreckage beneath, running water flashed and glistened, and far away across the space, out of the midst of a vague vast mass of buildings, there thrust the twisted end of a water-main, two hundred feet in the air, thunderously spouting a shining cascade. And everywhere great multitudes of people.
But when science turns the conception over and makes the connection in the air, disclosing the great water-main in the clouds, and that the mighty engine of the hydraulic system of nature is the sun, the fact becomes even more poetical, does it not? This is one of the many cases where science, instead of curtailing the imagination, makes new and large demands upon it.
Lad had leaped the narrow and deep ditch left along the lawn-edge by workers who were putting in a new water-main for the Place. On the far side of this obstacle he had stopped, and had waited for his friend to follow. But the friend had not followed. Instead, he had been somehow responsible for a spurt of red flame and for a most thrilling racket.
And he was lucky enough to seize the nigh horse by the bridle and pull both the high-steppers around. There was an excavation an opening for a water-main in this street. The workmen had either neglected to leave a red lantern, or malicious boys had stolen it. Another moment and the horses would have been in this excavation and even now the carriage swayed.
"About the size of your piano only he had a red mustache and a red shirt and I should say his complexion needed re-decorating. Irish foreman on a water-main trench." "And you you took it?" "Took it? I grabbed it!" "J a c k D e P e y s t e r!" his appalled mother slowly exclaimed so slowly that each letter seemed to shiver out by itself in horrified disjunction.
A crowd massed in the street, heedless of the danger that threatened as a section of roof curled like a piece of paper, writhed, and dropped to the sidewalk. A group of guards appeared with a hose-reel. They coupled to a hydrant. A thin stream gurgled from the hose and subsided. The sheriff ran to the steps of a building and called to the crowd. "Your friends," he cried, "have cut the water-main.
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