And when I shall have decayed like my predecessors , then , if you revere my memory , let a marble fountain richly sculptured take my place upon this spot . Such monuments should be erected everywhere and inscribed with the names of the distinguished champions of my cause . Now , listen , for something very important is to come next . There are two or three honest friends of mine -- and true friends I know they are -- who nevertheless by their fiery pugnacity in my behalf do put me in fearful hazard of a broken nose , or even a total overthrow upon the pavement and the loss of the treasure which I guard . -- I pray you , gentlemen , let this fault be amended . Is it decent , think you , to get tipsy with zeal for temperance and take up the honorable cause of the town-pump in the style of a toper fighting for his brandy-bottle ? Or can the excellent qualities of cold water be no otherwise exemplified than by plunging slapdash into hot water and woefully scalding yourselves and other people ? Trust me , they may . In the moral warfare which you are to wage -- and , indeed , in the whole conduct of your lives -- you can not choose a better example than myself , who have never permitted the dust and sultry atmosphere , the turbulence and manifold disquietudes , of the world around me to reach that deep , calm well of purity which may be called my soul . And whenever I pour out that soul , it is to cool earth 's fever or cleanse its stains . One o'clock ! Nay , then , if the dinner-bell begins to speak , I may as well hold my peace . Here comes a pretty young girl of my acquaintance with a large stone pitcher for me to fill . May she draw a husband while drawing her water , as Rachel did of old ! -- Hold out your vessel , my dear ! There it is , full to the brim ; so now run home , peeping at your sweet image in the pitcher as you go , and forget not in a glass of my own liquor to drink `` SUCCESS TO THE TOWN-PUMP . '' THE GREAT CARBUNCLE . -LSB- 1 -RSB- A MYSTERY OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS . At nightfall once in the olden time , on the rugged side of one of the Crystal Hills , a party of adventurers were refreshing themselves after a toilsome and fruitless quest for the Great Carbuncle . They had come thither , not as friends nor partners in the enterprise , but each , save one youthful pair , impelled by his own selfish and solitary longing for this wondrous gem .
Their feeling of brotherhood , however , was strong enough to induce them to contribute a mutual aid XXXXX building a rude hut of branches and kindling a great fire of shattered pines that had drifted down the headlong current of the Amonoosuck , on the lower bank of which they were to pass the night .
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