He was a curious old man with a crutch, and he came with his rod, and hobbled about till at last the rod twitched just at the tenant's back door--at least the diviner said it did.

At any rate, they dug there, and in ten minutes struck a spring of water, which bubbled up so strongly that it rushed into the house and flooded it.

And what do you think?
After all, the water was brackish.

You are the man with the divining rod, Mr.Bingham, and you have made me talk a great deal too much, and, after all, you see it is not nice talk.

You must think me a very disagreeable and wicked young woman, and I daresay I am.