Re: Beckfoot


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Posted by John Nichols on March 10, 2006 at 23:26:00 from 70.191.149.99 user Mcneacail.

In Reply to: Re: Beckfoot posted by Ed Kiser on March 10, 2006 at 20:03:50:

No Ed:

I have always taken that sentence to be impled as
"There is water in the bathroom" as Dot was filling a vase.

It is the context here that is important.

I can not believe Beckfoot did not have water. I doubt it was from the small beck, bet it was from a stream above the house or a dam. Like the stream at Holly Howe to the tannery.

Up until 1890 people accepted water as dangerous to drink. It is why the Chinese drank so much tea and died at a lot lower rate in the old West than the Irish who drank water.

JMN


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