PAINTING THE LANDSCAPE 



one unused to engineering problems, for 

 the little hollow where he wanted that 

 pond to stay was by no means at the 

 bottom of the mountain, but only at the 

 bottom of our part of it, a very different 

 thing, and the water had no intention of 

 standing still in our pond when it was only 

 halfway downhill ! But the Meister is 

 gifted with the grace of continuance, and 

 when the water leaked out of his pond 

 overnight, after his cohorts had been 

 working for weeks to dam it in, he 

 patiently recalled them for a fresh start, 

 and had the dam built all over again. 

 Three times the brook was diverted from 

 its course, the pond dug deeper, and the 

 heavy masonry of the dam strengthened, 

 and then at last the water gave up the 

 struggle and yielded itself an unwilling 

 prisoner; and that which had been the 

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