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The utensils in use in the dining room and kitchen were usually made of pewter, this material being both cheap and durable. Even upon the tables of the wealthiest planters were found sugar-pots, castors, tumblers, spoons, dishes, ladles, knives and various other articles all of pewter. Silver, however, was not unknown.
Even under those most favourable circumstances of having had the delightful gathering of the flowers in the sweet sunny fields the picking of them in the happy holiday afternoon the permission to use the best doll's tea-service for the feast the loan of a nice white table-cloth and the present of half-a-dozen pewter knives and forks to fancy-cut the biscuits with nay, even in spite of the addition of well-filled doll's sugar-pots and cream-jugs cowslip-tea always seems to want either a leetle more or a leetle less sugar or a leetle more or a leetle less cream or to be a leetle more or a leetle less strong to turn it into that complete nectar which, of course, it really IS.
There were milk-pots, milk-ewers, milk-jugs, ere there were milk-pitchers; sugar-boxes, sugar-pots, sugar-basins, ere there were sugar-bowls; spoon-boats and spoon-basins ere there were spoon-holders. Terrines were imported about 1750. There were pickle-dishes and pickle-boats, twifflers, mint-stands and vegetable-basins.
The keepers sometimes wondered at the lights which flashed here and there about the plantations, when in the coolness of a moist evening he went out to entrap the sidelong- dashing flutterers with his sugar-pots. But since he came to Galloway, and especially since he smelled the smell of the wood-fire set for the blanket-washing above the Crae Water bridge, there were new secrets open to him.
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