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Show BOYS PUMP THE WELL DRY Wanted to See a Water Wheel Work and Left Their Play Clever Work of Citizen. Brazil. Ind. Finding that surface water running Into his well had made the water impure, a citizen of Brazil started to pump his well dry. After pumping half an hour in the hot sun, he gave up the job. Then he made a miniature water wheel, which he attached to the end of a trough. After he had attracted the attention of several boys who were playing on a vacant lot, he went to his work. When he returned In fhe: evening, the boys had pumped the well dry, to see the wheel go round. |