It was not much bigger than a good-sized clothes cupboard and there was one small window in the back wall
with a sink under the window, but there were no taps over the sink.
Against another wall there was a shelf, presumably for preparing food, and there was a single cupboard above the shelf.
On the shelf itself there stood a Primus stove, a saucepan and a half-full bottle of milk.
A Primus is a little camping-stove that you fill with paraffin
and you light it at the top and then you pump it to get pressure for the flame.
“You can get me some water while I light the Primus,” Miss Honey said.
“The well is out at the back. Take the bucket. Here it is. You'll find a rope in the well.”
Just hook the bucket on to the end of the rope and lower it down, but don't fall in yourself.”
Matilda, more bemused than ever now, took the bucket and carried it out into the back garden.
The well had a little wooden roof over it and a simple winding device
and there was the rope dangling down into a dark bottomless hole.
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