20/32 The fields are parched and untilled. Such water as the people need for drinking is drawn by great labour from a well. Washing has become shockingly infrequent.' 'Are we to teach the dirty chaps to wash ?' asked Philip in disgust. 'You destroy the thread of my narrative. Where was I ?' 'Washing infrequent,' said Lucy; 'but if the fields are dried up, what do they live on ?' 'Pine-apples,' replied Mr.Noah, 'which grow freely and do not need much water. |