Aberdeen Township Utility Department is working on a water main leak in front of 149 Wilson Avenue.
A basement or cellar is one or more floors of a building that are either completely or partially below the ground floor.
Polly had discovered long ago that if you opened a certain little door in the box-room attic of her house you would find the cistern and a dark place behind it which you could get into by a little careful climbing. The dark place was like a long tunnel with brick wall on one side and sloping roof on the other.