You've done all this before, I think you said?"
"Yes."
"And I've spoken to Nils myself," he said, with a smile. "So you'll have
no trouble in that way. You can put the horses in now."
So bravely cheerful he was, I could not help feeling the same, and wanted
to begin at once; I hurried back with the horses, almost at a run. The
Captain seemed quite eager about this water-supply, now that the place
looked so nice with its new paint, and after the fine harvest we'd had.
And now he was cutting a thousand dozen battens in the woods, to pay off
his debts and leave something over!
So I went off up the rising ground, and found the old place I had marked
down long before for the reservoir, took the depth down to the house,
pacing and measuring this way and that. There was a streamlet came down
from the hillside far above, with such a depth and fall that it never
froze in winter; the thing would be to build a small stone reservoir here,
with openings at the sides for the overflow in autumn and spring.
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