Chapter 4-1

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4 The circular well was enclosed by a stone wall approximately a metre-and-a-half high. Toward the top, on one side, several stones had fallen from the wall and lay scattered haphazardly on the ground at its base. Extending about a metre above the inside wall of the well, the top of an aluminum extension ladder protruded. Next to the well, running at ninety degrees out from it, was a long water trough, which had fallen into disrepair and had, at a point long after its useful life, collapsed in the middle. The section remaining relatively intact was beset with rust and threatened to join the middle section at any moment. Weeds, rooted in the now dry sludge in the bottom of the trough, struggled to survive in the harsh, waterless conditions. On the opposite side of the well, a windmill, in

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