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-By GERALD S. HAWKINS * Rappahannock News Contributing Writer i^Then you live in the country, it is^ good idea to try to learn somethin? about plumbing because you never know what might go wrong. yliike most farms, we have our ovjo private water supply. The well gpe^ down 180 feet through solid gjrijnite to tap into an artesian reservt4rl- at least, that was what I was
I didn’t drill the well, thank gi&cfness, and I hoped that nothing eyjer would go wrong down there. In
left the red lid on the wellhead iiD place, and I didn’t give much thought to the pump and whatever nlachinery it was that was delivering the^water. |*3#hen the pump failed one cold djijr,- I was caught completely off guard. I took off the red lid, but thferfe was no way I could get at the ptonp hanging silently on the end of thp- 180-foot pipe, deep in the darkness* of the well. Nor would I know' hijvHo fix it if I could get to it. TflFhe month was March; the sky \tfas gray and loaded with snow, and tfie're was no water in the farmIgHJse. I needed an expert, so I pBoried for help. -t Within the hour, help came. I stbod and wratched a vehicle slowly making its wray down our long driveway. What I saw reminded me of the gypsy caravans that traveled along the English country roads when I was a boy.
There w’ere ropes and buckets dangling from the sides and rear, and at every lurch on the bumpy driveway, the cans and metal things made a clanging sound. The vehicle had a canvas cover over the top and
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