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alone.  A little beyond the stone cracker I overtook the
band of girls seen on the opposite bank; here they were
sitting about on the rock with their feet in the water.

Close to Wetheredsville at the spring I stopped to lunch,
I had about finished eating when two men came up with
buckets for water.  We exchanged greetings.  One of the men
had two buckets and was the better talker.  Speaking about the
water he said "This is the best water in the state of Md.,
it has been analyzed and it contains iron, lime and ether,
yes" he said "I think ether because they said it was good
for the kidneys".  He told me, too, that they had timed
it many a time and found that it discharged a gallon a minute.
The water comes out of a large three inch pipe.  He told 
me, too, that at one time they intended bottling the water
and selling it, but he didn't know why it wasn't carried 
out.  We now drifted to talk about plants.  He said, "Do
you know the century plant".  I told him I did and described
the plant to him (Sabbatia angularis).  He said "Well that is
a most excellent thing for stomach troubles, dyspepsia." The
flowering tops were to be steeped in whiskey, and a teaspoonful taken
        