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OCR: which stated that if a woman truly loved a man she should walk with him three times around the pond to ensure a marriage proposal. On suitable bank holidays the water was used by the Little Uffingham Radio Controlled Hobbyists, as a place to race their scale-model replicas. Sometimes, when a boat's propeller became entangled, or its tiny engine failed, the owner would be forced to wade out and rescue his craft. The procedure was messy, though not dangerous, providing the wader stayed clear of an area near the lower end of the hourglass from which sprang the cold, underground source that fed the pond. The natural well's ragged edges fell sharply away, creating a hole that was roughly five-feet across at its widest point. Nobody was sure just how deeply it went into the earth, although local ...