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And she was just about to do so, with the assent of Aunt M'riar, when the latter said suddenly: "My sakes and gracious! What's that?" rather as though taken aback by something unaccountable than alarmed by it. Uncle Mo listened a moment, undisturbed; then said, placidly: "Water-pipes, I should say."
They cut one or two water-pipes, and Wall, Greenfel and Buckner were arrested. All our arms were found in Wall's cellar, and taken possession of by our enemies. Mr. Eagle and Mr. N. Judy Corn-ington were not on hand, neither as actors nor advisers; and so it is. The arms, ammunition and hire for smuggling them through cost a half million dollars. This kind of work will not do.
It is, you will say perhaps, very small beer. But a straw shows the way the wind blows. It is a trivial matter of road metal, mud, and water-pipes, but it is also diagnostic of the essential difficulties in the way of the smooth and rapid reconstruction of Great Britain and very probably of the reconstruction of all Europe after the war.
One of the sentinels from the terrace stood at the upper end of the room, gesticulating and shouting something. And all the world had changed. A kind of throbbing. She couldn't understand. It was as if all the water-pipes and concealed machinery and cables of the ways beneath, were beating as pulses beat. And about her blew something like a wind a wind that was dismay.
The house, it had proved, was well furnished with bath-rooms, and "set- waters" everywhere. Water-pipes and gas-pipes all over the house; and a hack-, telegraph-, and fire-alarm, with a little knob for each. Mrs. Peterkin was very anxious.
You shall take the water-pipes away from the men who have poison them. Ah, that is what they say. I do not understand, but they say it shall be so." "Other men can do it," said Farr, curtly. "And yet you will come back when?" The old man was struggling with his bewilderment and doubt. "Never."
I made use of no other bed on this journey. A few days more on the great caravan road and we rode into the old capital of Persia, Ispahan, with its many memorials of departed greatness, its mosques with tall, graceful minarets, and its bazaars full of the products of Persian handicrafts and industries carpets, silken materials, embroideries, shawls, lacquered work, water-pipes, porcelain, and bronze vessels representing peacocks and elephants.
It was not, and the only human reply to the question was a further exclamation from Aunt M'riar one of real alarm this time at a disintegrating cracking sound, fraught with an inexplicable sense of insecurity. "That ain't water-pipes," said Uncle Mo. Then something something terrifying happened in the Court outside.
The engineering difficulties connected with the Metropolitan railway were very great as may easily be believed, seeing that it had to be formed under streets whose foundations were unavoidably shaken, and amongst an infinite ramification of gas and water-pipes and sewers whose separate action had to be maintained intact while the process of construction was going on.
Peoples who don't use fire do not of course have metals either; because without fire it is almost impossible to shape iron and steel. One of the first things that John Dolittle did was to search the mountains till he found iron and copper mines. Then he set to work to teach the Indians how these metals could be melted and made into knives and plows and water-pipes and all manner of things.
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