The springhouseis brick, now overgrown and filled almost completely so that there is no flow of water and original use is difficult to ascertain.
Since both this cistern type spring and the springhouse below the mansion house are probably contemporary, the lower one may have served exclusively as a dairy.
Dairy and Springs A dairy or springhouse is located at the base of the hill, some one hundred fifty-six feet southeast of the mansion house, near the point where the south driveway to Huntley meets Harrison Lane.
She had despatched Katy and Jane to the springhouse after milk and butter.
Johnnie an' me was gettin' you out of the springhouse and away in the machine.
And that cave was the one whar my Mammy kept her milk and butter--the springhouse whar they put you in prison.
Paula, bringing a pan of milk from the springhouse spied him first and stopped to satisfy her young eyes with the unwonted appearance of him.
The tree-toads were singing off by the springhouse and the cattle in the big corrals made the low, ceaseless night-sounds common to a herd.
She stood a moment on the broad stone at the kitchen door, a dish of butter from the springhouse under the poplars in her hand, and watched Billy Brent and Curly bring in a bunch from up Long Meadow way.
Night was coming fast across Lost Valley, while the tree-toads out by the springhouse set up their nightly chorus.
There are very few cellars in that region, and the springhouse is used for preserving milk, meat and other articles requiring the lowest attainable temperature in the absence of ice.
Of course the first men that came to it rushed into the little springhouse to quench their thirst and fill their canteens, which they succeeded in doing.
They lifted the springhouse from its foundations and threw it to one side, but this didn't help matters any.
After dinner as it was a very warm day, I suggested we go to the springhouse and read, and from the library got for him Fox's "Lives of The Martyrs.
I tried several times to get him to rest on the springhouse slab or dream couch, but his mind and temperament were too nervously active.
He never again came to the springhouse to sleep; and though afterwards I sat many hours by his bedside in the cabin, he never again uttered a strange or unusual sound until just before his death, which occurred in the fall.
The boy had the habit of coming to the springhouse and taking a nap each day on the milk crock bench, which had been discarded since we had bought our new refrigerator.
I rarely sleep in the daytime; but today the cool subdued light and quiet of the springhouse was responsible for a lapse.
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