Dowsing

And don't try to find it on a map, because it isn't.

Set yourself for my saga of a crook's tour of the hinterlands, with just a touch of mysticism, which is why I call it The Rowdy Dowser Caper.

All right, Murgatroyd, these will do.

Sam, where are you calling from?

To Constable Ollie Shuttle, North Tacaloma, California.

From Samuel Spade, license number 137596.

Subject, the Rowdy Dowser Caper.

Dear Ollie, [gentle music] on Wednesday it was when I returned to my office of a fine spring morning to find a note lying on my desk like a big juicy piece of cheese in a mousetrap.

Go right ahead, Mr. Thorson.

Mr. Dobkin, do you feel that science has been able to determine by what means certain men and women are able to consult a forked stick and discover water far underground? You mean a water dowser? Yes.

Oh, that's a superstition that goes back to the Middle Ages.

I believe it's more than a superstition.

Gentlemen, may I make a suggestion? Certainly, Mr.

McIntyre.

The workshop has included the case of a water dowser in tonight's report.

For case number one, we have invited a gentleman who can give us an eyewitness account of how a water dowser works.

Because I like to talk from personal experience.

You know, one thing reading about this from Dowsers, but when you actually go there and you can't feel your forearm for 10 minutes, it's very inconvenient when you're trying to film a documentary.

It's like your arm's just gone like this.

But it's true.

Learn first what is work, and the great work is not so far beyond.

Chapter 53 The Dowser Once round the meadow, brother, does the hazel twig dip.

Twice round the meadow, brother, does the hazel twig dip.

Thrice round the paddock, highly, lowly, wily, holy, dip, dip, dip.