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“What’s troublin’ you, lad? You’ve got something on your mind 1 see from your frown.” I had not realized that I was frowning.
“I’ve just been to a meeting ^here the subject was water, or rather the lack of knowledge about it. And it is troubling me a bit.”
“Ach” (it was that odd accent again) “you have plenty of water for the people you have here now, but bring in a few more folks, and then see how things look after you’ve had a dry year or two.”
“Do you mean that we can run out of water?”
“Of course you can, but look at this stream right here, if you make it into a lake, you can have plenty of water for a long time.” He laughed, and said “you can dam this stream right at that big farm.” He pointed in the general direction of Mt. Vernon Farm. “Right below where the two streams join there are bluffs on both sides. Raise a dam there, put Sperryville under ten feet of water, and (more chuck
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