"That water has done us good, and it will do others good; and if they drink that, they will drink less whiskey." Addison spent the evenings in making out bills and attending to the correspondence; for there were other matters that had to be attended to besides the Rose-Quartz Spring.

Besides the farm work we had to look after the hardwood flooring mill that summer and the white-birch dowel mill.

For several days toward the end of June we did not even have time to go up to the spring for our usual supply of water.

But we kept Jim Doane there under instructions to attend carefully to the putting up of the water.

It was his sole business, and he seemed to be attending to it properly.