The Pulaskian., 1921-06-16
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l Though 1t was Sunday, 1 cleaned the old spring out, for l was sick and suffering for water. At the up- per side of the old spring I saw where a tiny stream of water was coming in, so just dipped all the water out and made a tiny cavity, where the water came in, and as soon as it cleared up l went 10 drinking. It tasted good 10 me and 1 kept on drinking all day and the more 1 drank the better 1 felt 1 also saw that there was more water coming in from above, so l made another little cavity and tasted 1t. 1 could tell by the taste that 1t was no healthful water.
 We'll, just at daybreak Monday morning, about 3:30 a. m., Tommy Singer, the Fairy's call boy, came around singing quite merrily, and woke me up. It did not bother me much, for 1 had slept we'll and was feeling just fine. It would have saved me many a licking could l have had that water to drink when l was boy and had felt as much like getting up when 1 first awakened of a morning as did that morning. For always when was boy l would feel bad about getting up time. 1 know now 1t was because we lived in a malarial country and l was not as we'll as 1 looked to be. Well, l got up and got breakfast quick, for as 1 said at the start, 1 was more youthful in feelings than l was when 1 was fifteen year old boy, and so l was. l worked on my spring nearly all day. The spring is located in the bed of a branch in almost solid slate rock. It Is not solid, but IS in alternate strips of clay and slate The slate is from six to twelve inches thick, while the clay Is usually only an inch or so thick. The color varies, being from a pretty blue to a brown iron rust color. The first little spring have named the Fairy spring, and have kept 1t at about the same size as at the start II keeps enlarging because il Is in soft slate and clay Il IS on my right as l worked up stream. As the water coming from above was not healthy and was sepa- rated from the Fairy spring by a layer of brown slate rock, which runs across the branch in a west of northwest direction and dips toward the northeast, just about fifteen steps above the branch the growth of tim Der indicates that the fountain-head of water is there, so if my spring fails me can probably get a fine we'll of water there by digging only about six to ten feet. 1 made little excavation above this layer of slate about six inches wide and ten to fiji teen inches deep, measuring from the layer above 1t. The layer below leveled off so that il forms a kind of shelf or seat. The excavation is about twenty inches wide and six inches across and will be nice place to set quart jars of milk to cool. l also exeavated a little above there and found two more veins of water coming in, each separated by layer of slate, and 1 found out that there was no water coming into the little trench except what came in from above. felt so we'll after shaping up my spring that 1 worked in my gardens some and decided in order that l might get things shaped up for ramble that 1 would have me cold cup of strong coffee ready to drink when got up the next morn ing so that could get a lot of work done during the cool early hours and then come in and get real break fast. 1 was feeling young and fine and more like work than 1 ever felt before in my life. We'll, the fairy's call boy awoke me as usual about half past three or four. l don't know the time because my watch has stop ped running. l suppose Wanda thinks 1 need pay no more attention to time, as she has made me young again.
 We'll, certainly got lot of work done that day. 1 went to the post office and drank water out of the Maumelle wells. It sure tasted good and cold, much colder than my spring water. My spring water has a little taste to it, not bad if you drink it fresh from the spring, but if you bring 1t up in a nice glass jar even 1t don't taste so good. 1 think it has little soda and sulphur in it. It tastes little of the black gum and pine roots which are in the clay.