Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

As they approached Wild Water; they rode out into a long narrow
meadow. In the middle was a pond.

"Natural reservoir, when Glen Ellen begins to buy water," Billy
said. "See, down at the lower end there?--wouldn't cost anything
hardly to throw a dam across. An' I can pipe in all kinds of
hill-drip. An' water's goin' to be money in this valley not a
thousan' years from now.--An' all the ginks, an' boobs, an' dubs,
an' gazabos poundin' their ear deado an' not seein' it
comin.--An' surveyors workin' up the valley for an electric road
from Sausalito with a branch up Napa Valley."