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from "Mike Lyle" contains these words:

I used to draw water from a small foot-deep hole in the ground at
the
foot of a brae. The hole was lined with stones, and the water was
usually a lovely shade of deep Cairngorm. (Coloured like Glen Grant
or
Linkwood if it had been *VERY* wet.)

With one of those dippers -- a bowl on a handle? I remember that
drill from some Youth Hostels in Scotland and Ireland in the
'fifties. I bought a little house in the hills in Wales which at the
time only had that system in the 'sixties. Happy days!

We used a jug.

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