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(0 this story. But recently, when the crypt of the 1 among the tombs of the Whartons with a brass wrresponded with that assigned to the French lady's ited. 1e engineers had settled their plans, we set to work, rious consideration. This was the question of the be relied on in a drought. The Chiltern Hills st, which an Aylesbury Company works with much d profit to its shareholders. Not a moment was even miles of pipes from the county town to the uilding a large storage tank in the grounds. This immer the supply failed, and but for the Manager’s water, we should have been compelled to leave the another and a larger tank was constructed. e house. The part of the hill we had selected for een proceeded with for some months proved not to 1e whole of the brick-work had then to be removed was reached. I now began to realise the importance a house is insignificant compared with the labour of isheartened at first by the delay and the worry that most irksome of all was the progress of the roads, on raged, supplemented by a gang of navvies under the é. The steepness of the hill necessitated an endless