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had done, she looked down to the stream which
ran pff below the mill, and said, —

«¢ Ah! they’ve shut the gate.”

“ What gate?” said Lucy, looking ; “I don’t
see any gate.” .

“The water-gate, I mean,” said the girl;
— “the gate that lets the water under the mill.”

* How do you know that they’ve shut it?”
said Lucy.

“‘ Because,” replied the girl, “don’t you see
that the water doesn’t run-under the mill?
When the gate is up, and they are grinding, the
water comes tumbling through, under the -mill, in
a great stream.”

Lucy looked, and saw that there was a channel
behind the mill, beginning under it, which passed
down a little’ way, and gradually turned, and at
length, at a short distance, came out into the
nain stream. The bottom was rocky, and now
nearly bare, only there was a small stream, which
ran among the rocks, flowing out towards the main
current. There is generally such a channel below
a mill, by which the waste water is discharged,
after it has performed its duty of giving impulse,
in its descent, to the float-boards of the great
wheel.

At the place where this channel entered the