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A Busy Year at the Old Squire’s

CHAPTER XII
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THE ROSE-QUARTZ SPRING Throughout that entire season the old Squire was much interested in a project for making a fortune from the sale of spring water.

The water of the celebrated Poland Spring, twenty miles from our place--where the Poland Spring Hotel now stands--was already enjoying an enviable popularity; and up in our north pasture on the side of Nubble Hill, there was, and still is, a fine spring, the water of which did not differ in analysis from that of the Poland Spring.

It is the "boiling" type of spring, and the water, which is stone-cold, bubbles up through white quartzose sand at the foot of a low granite ledge.

It flows throughout the year at the rate of about eight gallons a minute.
It had always been called the Nubble Spring, but when the old Squire and Addison made their plans for selling the spring water they rechristened it the Rose-Quartz Spring on account of an outcrop of rose quartz in the ledges near by.
They had the water analyzed by a chemist in Boston, who pronounced it as pure as Poland water, and, indeed, so like it that he could detect no difference.

All of us were soon enthusiastic about the project.
First we set to work to make the spring more attractive.


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