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step-Ladder is put aside, and a man, standing on the plat- 

 form, takes a sack on his buck from another inside, who had 

 wheeled it on a truck and placed it upright in the door- 

 way. In the bottom of the granary door is a hole for 

 the cat. 



The water flour-mills are usually buildings of some 





Back of Wyatt's Almshouses 



antiquity, and nearly always of interest in some way or other. 

 Indeed, the mere fact of the placing of the mill, with its pond 

 above and its stream below, and the working of it — the water 

 dashing in the great wheel, the sound of the old-time mill 

 machinery, the constant vibration as of something alive (some 

 sort of plodding, lumbering, good-natured, meal-producing 

 monster, fed and guided and controlled by the careful miller) 



