[听加拿大语文] 第四册 A Rill From the Town Pump

[听加拿大语文] 第四册 A Rill From the Town Pump NOON, by the North clock! Noon, by the east! High noon, too, by these hot sunbeams which fall scarcely aslope upon my head and almost make the water bubble and smoke in the trough under my nose. Truly, we public characters have a tough time of it! And, among all the public characters chosen at March meeting, where is he that sustains for a single year, the burden of such manifold duties as are imposed in perpetuity upon the Town Pump? .......