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With this craft he would affray the peasants about the fire in the little inns where we sometimes rested, when he would be telling tales of bogles and eldritch fantasies, and of fiends that rout and rap, and make the tables and firkins dance. Such art of speech, I am advised, is spoken of by St.
The pedlars and itinerant merchants from all the cities and provinces had brought their wares jewellery and crockery, ribbons and laces, ploughs and harrows, carriages and horses, cows and sheep, cheeses and butter firkins, doublets and petticoats, guns and pistols, everything that could serve the city and country-side for months to come and displayed them in temporary booths or on the ground, in every street and along every canal.
Only, as it typo happened, the tea-chests which were spilt in Boston Harbour were finished so far as the brewing of tea was concerned, while the kegs and firkins dropped overboard were easily recoverable by such as were in the secret.
He had dropped out of the world, shot like a bright particular star from his orbit in the heaven of the best society. The following conversation took place one night in the smoking-room: "Where's Van Twiller?" "Who's seen Van Twiller? "What has become of Van Twiller?" Delaney picked up the "Evening Post," and read with a solemnity that betrayed young Firkins into exclaiming, "By Jove, now!
His mind was a strange jumble of an early religious education, religious as to externals and professions, at least, with subsequent loose observation and much worldly experience, and he drew on his stock of information, according to his own account of the matter, "as Saunders, the steward, cut the butter from the firkins, or as it came first."
"There are two firkins of small beer and a tun of canary. How can we set such drink before the King and his court?" "We must have some wine of Bordeaux. With that and the mottled cow's calf and the fowls and a goose, we can set forth a sufficient repast if he stays only for the one night. How many will be with him?" "A dozen, at the least." The old dame wrung her hands in despair.
The Column might be trusted to carry with it a sufficiency of firkins to achieve that glorious end; and we were meanwhile content to be fastidious in our choice of jams, and to be the bane of our grocer's existence. Week ending 9th December, 1899 For such comfort as preserved fruit could shed over the soul was still ours.
He was peeping into the butter firkins, smelling and tasting, and wherever he found some very good butter he helped himself to a bit of it and put it in a basket he carried on his arm. Dame Pridgett pressed up close to him and looked into his basket, and there in it was a dish almost full of butter. When the good dame saw that, she was so indignant that she quite lost all prudence.
And a sad loss they will be to some poor fellow in the glen above. And oh! Look at the pig turning round and round solemnly in the corner under the rock. Poor piggy! He ought to have been at home safe in his stye, and not wandering about the hills. And what are these coming now? Butter firkins, I think. Yes. This is a great flood. It is well if there are no lives lost.
Three paces would more than measure it in any direction, and it was filled with barrels, not clean and new, but black, and containing probably the provender of the vessel; jugs, firkins, the cook's utensils and kitchen furniture everything grimy and sable with coal dust. There were two or three tiers of berths; and the blankets, etc., are not to be thought of.
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