The doers . e saw a faucet that was nailedto a board. And the faucet was on the end of a pipewhich stuck up from the ground near themortar box. Why, he said, there s a faucet, andwater will come. I Ve seen the mortar manget it there. Yes, said the foreman. We had tohave water to use. It comes through thispipe that lies on top of the ground all theway to your house. See? And the foreman showed David the was hidden by the long grass. They re going to lay the pipes now,Davie. Do you want to see them do it? So David put his little hand into the fore-mans big one, and they went together tow
The doers . e saw a faucet that was nailedto a board. And the faucet was on the end of a pipewhich stuck up from the ground near themortar box. Why, he said, there s a faucet, andwater will come. I Ve seen the mortar manget it there. Yes, said the foreman. We had tohave water to use. It comes through thispipe that lies on top of the ground all theway to your house. See? And the foreman showed David the was hidden by the long grass. They re going to lay the pipes now,Davie. Do you want to see them do it? So David put his little hand into the fore-mans big one, and they went together towhere the men were. The men had got up out of the trench, andthey were going to take up one of the ironpipes that lay in the gutter. Just as they began to lift it, out of one end 52 THE DOERS of it popped Davids kitty. She scurriedaround and popped into the end of anotherpipe, and all the men laughed. Funny kitty, said David. Then the men took hold of the pipe thatthe cat had been in at first, and they lifted. OUT POPPED DAVIDS KITTY it, one at each end, and they carried it andput it down beside the trench. Then they got into the trench again, and THE WATER-MEN STORY 53 they took hold of the pipe and lowered it tothe bottom. David could nt see what the men weredoing then, and he went to the edge of thetrench and squatted there and watched. He saw the end of a pipe sticking out ofthe ground into the trench. It looked as if ithad been in the ground a long time. What is that? he asked the foreman. The foreman said it was the end of theold pipe, and there was a place near hishouse where they could put a long ironthing into the ground, down as far as thepipes, and turn it and let the water intothis pipe. The long iron thing was like aclock-key. tl And Davie, he said, you see that oneend of each pipe flares out bigger than theother end. The men put the small end of onepipe into the flaring end of the next. You 11 see. So David looked and the men fitted thesmall end of the new pipe int
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