“No,” said Mary Jay; “the water in the cistern comes out of the post; it does not go into it. The water spouts out from the post, and keeps the cistern full.”
“And where does the rest of the water go to?” said Lucy.
“It flows along through another pipe, underground, into a trough in the barn-yard, where the cows go to drink.”
Lucy paused a moment, reflecting upon what she had heard; and then she said,—
“But, Mary Jay, how could they put the great logs in the ground, without digging up all the grass in the yard?”
“They did dig it up,” said Mary Jay, “I suppose, when they put the logs down; but that was several years ago, and the grass has grown up since.”
“O,” said Lucy, “I didn’t think of that.”
Lucy paused again a few minutes, and then she drew a long breath, and said,—
“Well,—I knew the water didn’t come in a leaden pipe, at any rate, and I told Royal so.”