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This is a small tin box, of the pepper-box or flour-dredger shape, standing three to four inches high. By pulling the bottom downward, therefore, you draw down with it the inner tube, telescope fashion. By so doing you bring into view a slit or opening at one side of the inner tube, level with the bottom, and of such a size as to let a half-dollar pass through it easily.
There was a hole in the door, and the man put his head through the hole, and the barber on the other side powdered him out of the flour-dredger. It was curious to be brought back in this fashion to those far-off days, and to suddenly realise how many other people had played their tragi-comedies within these walls. Wigs! Only the dressy people wore wigs.
He'll smother 'em all." I modestly said, "Do you think he is big enough?" "Big enough! a giant, sir! Mark my words, sir, you'll see Bob Peck's colours in triumph on the bay." I mildly said: "I thought The Bard was a very little one when I saw him, and he didn't seem bay. He was rather like the colour you might get by shaking a flour-dredger over a mulberry. Have you had a look at him?"
One nutmeg-grater. Two wire sieves; one ten inches across, the other four, and with tin sides. One flour-sifter. One fine jelly-strainer. One frying-basket. One Dover egg-beater. One wire egg-beater. One apple-corer. One pancake-turner. One set of spice-boxes, or a spice-caster. One pepper-box. One flour-dredger. One sugar-dredger. One biscuit-cutter. One potato-cutter. A dozen muffin-rings.
"Why, if you must," she said, "how can I prevent you?" Then, all at once, her cool, soft arms were about his neck, had drawn him down to meet her kiss, and he was alone with the pastry board, the rolling-pin and the flour-dredger but he saw them all through a golden glory, and when he somehow found himself out upon the dingy landing, the glory was all about him still.
Geoffrey?" enquired Hermione, pausing, flour-dredger in hand, to glance at him slily under her brows. "I think Mrs. Trapes is a wonderful woman," he answered. "Ah, now, Mr. Geoffrey, quit y'r jollying," said Mrs. Trapes, smiling at the potato. "Mrs. Trapes has taught me much wisdom already and, among other things, that I shall never be or do anything worth the while without the aid of a woman "
As he became more popular, household objects were brought into requisition for his instruction in a copious vocabulary; and whenever he appeared in the Yard ladies would fly out at their doors crying 'Mr Baptist tea-pot! 'Mr Baptist dust-pan! 'Mr Baptist flour-dredger! 'Mr Baptist coffee-biggin! At the same time exhibiting those articles, and penetrating him with a sense of the appalling difficulties of the Anglo-Saxon tongue.