"What do you mean ?" "Why, Jan and I discovered an old mill about half a mile up the river, while we were out looking for cedar.

It's out of repair, and the dam is partly broken away; but the machinery in it seems to be pretty good, and the wheel's all right.

I don't believe it would take very much money to fix the dam; and the stream that supplies the mill-pond is never-failing, because it comes from a big sulphur spring.

We found the man who owns it, and had a long talk with him.

He says that business fell off so after the bridge was carried away that when his dam broke he didn't think it would pay to rebuild it.