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Tom soon found himself at a huge building site. There were all kinds of people doing different jobs and even a huge wooden crane lifting heavy blocks of stone.
Digby hated dust and dirt and getting wet. There was no way he would hang around here . . . but wait, was that Granny Bea further up the road?
This is the , which carried water from a lake 40 kilometres outside of Rome. Some rich Romans even had water piped directly into their homes for cooking and washing.
Some aqueducts were simple earth channels, some were lined with
stone, and some carried water across rivers or valleys in waterways running across high stone arches.
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• Digby the cat?
• A man who’s dropped a hammer?
• A juggler?
• Tom?
• An angry goose chasing a builder?
• A lady with her shopping?
• A bird giving someone a nasty
surprise?
