31 He began to walk around, the situation getting
the best of him. Then, he noticed the river was flowing rather high. He
put his foot on the top of some logs on the bank, then looked up at the
wall, then back to the bank again. "Damn!" he cried, "A dam! Haul out
these logs, build a dam across the river, and let it wash the dirt
from under the wall! We can just sit back and wait. Sooner or later
that wall's GOT to come down.
32 This river's got a good current, from the look of this barricade
it's endangered the wall before. "
33 With all the water from the lake rushing through here, it must have
made some problems. They didn't understand why the old city was built so
far back from the river. They rebuilt this wall far too close. All of
this was put in afterwards to protect it."
34 "Well, now it's going to help destroy it, while we've still got the
fire to protect us; bring in every man we can spare, and dig a channel
right up to that wall. Then start gathering rocks, logs, anything we
can find and start dumping them in the channel.
35 It shouldn't take us long to fill it. The water will find a new
course, and start washing out under the wall. Three or four days it'll
start crumbling. "
36 The fire gave them a day's cover. By the time it had died, and the
enemy's soldiers could take the wall again to see what they were
doing, their work was well out of arrow-range.
37 "I understand now," commented Gray Goat, "why our people always
build their cities so far from water! I thought it was foolish, now,
I'm beginning to see how smart it was. They've never given an enemy an
opportunity to do anything like this.