A LAND-LOVER AND HIS LAND 



and contrivance, to see his barns, his 

 bins, his dairy, his cellar, his smoke- 

 house, his well -house. After seeing, 

 you feel sure that, if he had not turned 

 out a great accountant, he would have 

 been a sort of Edison for domestic 

 convenience. 



By the well-house and water-supply 

 hangs a story, short but instructive. 

 There was a well in commission, good 

 but insufficient. As has been said, 

 there were also springs. The boldest 

 of them came out in the woods half a 

 mile away. So an engineer came and 

 made plans for delivering its waters at 

 the house by means of an hydraulic 

 ram. The cost? Oh, a trifle eight 

 thousand dollars; moreover, the ram 

 would run itself. The farmer said 

 nothing he was thinking deeply. A 

 little way off the house was another 



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