Dan said: ‘Have you heard the warnings about the well water around here? You haven’t been drinking it, have you?’ ‘No, sir,’ said Greg McAllister. ‘I’ve never drunk the well water in my whole life, not me nor my father in front of me, nor his father.’ ‘You haven’t? But why ever not?’ asked Dan. Greg, with his hands still firmly in his pockets, gave us a noncommittal shrug. ‘Maybe it was stupid,’ he told us, ‘but the belief in my family always was that the wells around here were cursed. My grandpa used to call them the Wells of Hell.’
