have it set right in our back yard, clost to the horse barn, why
I might possibly try to make a dicker with you for it. I might
use it for raisin' ducks and geese, though I'd rather have a
runnin' stream then. But how under the sun you think I could
take a pool home on a tower, how I could pack it, or transport
it, or drive it home is a mystery to me."

Again he sez mechinecally, "Lots of wimmen do get 'em."

"Wall, some wimmen," sez I mildly, for I see he wuz a lookin' at
me perfect dumbfoundered. I see I wuz fairly stuntin' him with
my eloquence. "Some wimmen will buy anything if it has a French
name to it. But I prefer my own country, land or water. And
some wimmen," sez I, "will buy anything if they can get it cheap,
things they don't need, and would be better off without, from a
eliphant down to a magnificent nothin' to call husband. They'll
buy any worthless and troublesome thing jest to get 'em to goin'.
Now such wimmen would jest jump at that pool. But that haint my
way. No, I don't want to purchase your pool."

Sez he, "You are mistaken, mom!"

"No I haint," sez I firmly and with decesion. "No I haint. I
don't need no pool. It wouldn't do me no good to keep it on my
hands, and I haint no notion of settin' up in the pool or pond
business, at my age."

"And then," sez I reasonably, "the canal runs jest down below our
orchard, and if we run short, we could get all the water we
wanted from there. And we have got two good cisterns and a well