Those buckets were filled before my mother died. I expect them to be still there, with the...
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Mrs. Clement:
Some years ago, two gentlemen went back to Amsterdam saying that Allhevingay was just like home. There was so much water - so many ornamental ponds, so many canals, so many sinks and basins. There was even a wind pump. What they had not realized was my father had made his land into a pattern of reservoirs because he was terrified of fire. There was even a room under the front stairs that housed two hundred buckets, all of them filled with water. I know because whenever I was taken short, my brothers and I used to rush in there and use them. [laughs] Mrs. Clement:
Those buckets were filled before my mother died. I expect them to be still there, with the same water of thirty years ago, I shouldn't wonder - mixed with a little of myself, of course. I used to pee like a horse. I still do
Some years ago, two gentlemen went back to Amsterdam saying that Allhevingay was just like home. There was so much water - so many ornamental ponds, so many canals, so many sinks and basins. There was even a wind pump. What they had not realized was my father had made his land into a pattern of reservoirs because he was terrified of fire. There was even a room under the front stairs that housed two hundred buckets, all of them filled with water. I know because whenever I was taken short, my brothers and I used to rush in there and use them. [laughs] Mrs. Clement:
Those buckets were filled before my mother died. I expect them to be still there, with the same water of thirty years ago, I shouldn't wonder - mixed with a little of myself, of course. I used to pee like a horse. I still do
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Some years ago two gentlemen went back to Amsterdam
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saying that Allhevinghay was just like home
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There was so much water so many ornamental ponds
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so many canals so many sinks and basins
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There was even a wind pump
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What they had not realized was
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my father had made his land into a pattern of reservoirs
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because he was terrified of fire
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There was even a room under the front stairs
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that housed 200 buckets
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all of them filled with water
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I know because whenever I was taken short
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my brothers and I used to rush in there and use them
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Laughing
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Sighs Those buckets were filled before my mother died
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I expect them to be still there
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with the same water of 30 years ago I shouldn't wonder
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mixed with a little of myself of course
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I used to pee like a horse
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I still do Chuckling
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Movie Summary
A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.
