tiently, and did not r

haps you're right. But it will cost a lot of mo

tarted to dig. Seventy steps for the maids to go th

his other way would cost

e; the whole installation, with work and material, ought n

t looked

that

es

if I were slow by nature, and born so. But, rea

" said the priest thoughtfully. "And that wate

arrying water to th

upstairs. It won't hel

pipes up to th

rooms? Will there be pressure

ore answering, as a stolid fellow,

for a jet the height

And then again: "Come and let us see

I let the priest look through my instrument, and sho

the other man ab

ce, and said: "Grindhusen? He'

st looke

y?" he

ain, the priest talk

ng water in the winter. And summer, too, for that

went

ent for round to the front steps

g to give us water laid on to

vy, stolid fashion, and the priest a

stions-would it really be a proper water-supply like they had in town, just turn on a tap and there was the water all rea

o up to the top of the hill and

I set the instrument fo

ul!" sai

en said ne

riest

sure there'

gment, that it was not a thing to swear to

of signs?"

notice there's willow and osiers gro

t nodded,

business, Mari

unwarrantably that she could manage with one maid less o

er all the garden with a hose fixed to the t

d!" she

l twice the size, and a branch pipe across the yard, the dairymaid would be saved as much as the kitchen-mai

ait till Grindhusen came back. The