"Here's the true elixir of health," the old Squire often said as he drew a glass of it and sat down in the pleasant, cool "water room" to enjoy it.
Addison and he had fixed the price of the water at twenty-five cents a gallon, although we made our neighbors and fellow townsmen welcome to all they cared to come and get.

We first advertised the water in June, and sales increased slowly throughout the summer and fall.

Apparently the water gave good satisfaction, for the kegs came back to be refilled.
By the following May the success of the venture seemed assured.

Those who were using the water spoke well of it, and the demand was growing.
In April we received orders for more than nine hundred gallons, and in May for more than thirteen hundred gallons.
The old Squire was very happy over the success of the enterprise.

"It's a fine, clean business," he said.