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quite young. She thought it probable that he
was one of Mr. Emery’s boys, almost grown up.
Just at this moment, a woman, very plainly
dressed, came out of a back door in the house,
with a water-pail in her hand, and walked along a
path which led down a descent beyond the house.
She looked at the wagon a moment as she went
along, but did not stop. Lucy followed the
direction of the path with her eye, and she saw
that it led down to a little brook not far from the
house. There was a log across the brook where
the path reached it, and a deep place in the
water, just above the log. Lucy saw very plainly
that the woman was going to get a pail of water.

Lucy meant to watch her, to see her dip up
her water. In fact, she was afraid that she would
fall off the log. She was, however, prevented
from watching her, by having her attention
attracted suddenly to John and his boring; for,
just before the woman reached the brook, John
began to draw out his auger.

He walked backwards, keeping hold of the
handle of the auger with both hands, and drawing
it out as he receded. It was a long iron rod,
which kept coming out more and more, the far-
ther he went back, till Lucy began to think that
the end of it would never come.

“ Q, what a long borer!” said Lucy.

In fact, the borer was as long as the log. It
would do no good to have a log for a pump
fonger than the auger to be used in boring it; for
mn that case the hole could not be bored through.

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