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Updated: June 25, 2025
"I found a lot of cakes over along the road," declared Kurt, with a grim surety that he had done that well. "They've surrounded your wheat," returned Olsen. "But if enough men get here we'll save the whole section.... Lucky you've got two wells an' that watertank. We'll need all the water we can get. Keep a man pumpin'. Fetch all the bags an' brooms an' scythes.
"It seems to me there's music in the air," answered his companion. "I've been fancying I heard it for a minute or so. There! No yes. It's a band, isn't it?" "No; what would a band " The train slowed up, and stopped at a watertank, two hundred yards east of the station, and their uncertainty was at an end. From somewhere down the track came the detonating boom of a cannon.
Now I know where I'm at if it's true," he added suspiciously, suddenly sitting erect again. "Miss Lawson said she heard Podmore tell Ferguson you hid that envelope for him in a stump up in the bush near some watertank or other after he'd pinched it from Mr. Wade's private car, and that you two fellows were friends an' had both got fired by Wade because you wouldn't tell where the envelope was."
After all, who would know by the light of Nature how to go about sweeping a chimney, as they used to do it here, with rope and furzebush dragged down? or how to scour out a watertank effectively? or where to begin upon cleaning a pigstye?
Calling in Sourdough Sam, the cook who made everything but coffee out of sourdough, he ordered him to mix enough sourdough to fill the big watertank. Hitching Babe to the tank he hauled it over and dumped it into the lake. When it "riz," as Sam said, a mighty lava-like stream poured forth and carried the logs over the hills to the river.
It was fortunate that most of the roofs of the little village had been constructed of galvanized iron. Beating out blazes and glowing embers with brooms was not effective enough. When it appeared that the one cottage nearest the rain of sparks was sure to go, Kurt thought of the railroad watertank below the station.
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