Those Victorians who did not have a well on their own place bought water by the bucket from the great barrel water-cart which peddled it. Water brought in wooden pipes from Spring Ridge on the northern outskirts of the town was our next modernness. Three wonderful springs watered…
Cook Street crossed Fort Street just before the point at which a better class of houses mounted the Fort Street Hill and made it residential. A few semi-nice houses did trickle round the corner of Fort into Cook but they got smaller, poorer and scarcer as Cook…
The two sisters a lot older than I taught the two sisters a little older about many things, but when I was old enough to puzzle over these same things and to ask questions I was told, “Don’t pester! Don’t ask questions just for the sake of asking.”…
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