. The call of the West -letters from British Columbia . THE MILL, WHITEWATER PACK MULES. To face p. 42. THE SLOCAN 43 but that when putting up stove-pipes a free dis-pensation was granted to swear ad lib. ! * * * * * And the water-pipes ! Never shall I forget thetimes I have had with frozen pipes ; the hoursI have spent crawling about in the space underthe house, locating frozen or burst pipes, replacingthem, and covering them over with sawdust ormanure, very often only to have to take the samepipe out again a day or two afterwards, and doingall these operations doubled up in all kinds
. The call of the West -letters from British Columbia . THE MILL, WHITEWATER PACK MULES. To face p. 42. THE SLOCAN 43 but that when putting up stove-pipes a free dis-pensation was granted to swear ad lib. ! * * * * * And the water-pipes ! Never shall I forget thetimes I have had with frozen pipes ; the hoursI have spent crawling about in the space underthe house, locating frozen or burst pipes, replacingthem, and covering them over with sawdust ormanure, very often only to have to take the samepipe out again a day or two afterwards, and doingall these operations doubled up in all kinds of fancypositions by the light of a candle dimly burning ! The water was laid on from a spring a quarterof a mile away on the other side of the river. Thesupply pipe froze on me twice ; on one occasionI was three weeks without water. I had two menworking on the pipeline most of the time, andfinally, with the aid of a liberal use of coal-oiland waste, and a vast amount of perseverance, wegot the water to run again. Then the waste-pipes would freeze and have tobe dug out and thawe
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