caups

Updated: May 10, 2025

It was a long, solemn face, but the eyes were bright-blue and sparkling; and when he smiled, which was not very often, it was a good and meaningful smile. When the meal was over, and he saw the little that was left, with all the drops of milk from the caups, tumbled into a common receptacle, to be kept, he thought, for the next meal, poor Gibbie felt very empty and forsaken.

George MacDonald - Sir Gibbie

The clean yellow-white table of soft smooth fir, needed no cloth only horn spoons and wooden caups. At length a hand came to the latch, and mother and daughter greeted as mother and daughter only can; then came a son, and mother and son greeted as mother and son only can. They kept on arriving singly to the number of six two daughters and four sons, the youngest some little time after the rest.

George MacDonald - Sir Gibbie