Besides, they find underground water, and tell where wells ought to be dug.

We want a pond which any one can see with the naked eye, without being endowed with psychic powers.

My natural reason tells me to go down hill, and perhaps we'll strike it in a hollow." The girls rambled on, thoroughly enjoying the coolness of the shade and the beauty of the wood.

As Beatrice had prophesied, when they reached the foot of the incline they came across quite a good-sized pool, with reeds and iris growing on its banks.

They rejoiced exceedingly.
Now it is one thing to wash one's hair in a bath or a basin, but quite another to perform that operation in a pond with shallow muddy edges.
The girls took off their shoes and stockings, tucked up their skirts and waded into the middle, where they made gallant efforts at dipping and rinsing their heads, and contrived to get uncommonly wet in the process.
They wrung out their dripping tresses, mopped them with handkerchiefs (for nobody had dared to take a towel), and spread them out over their shoulders to dry.