half-mud

Updated: August 22, 2026

So they were replaced by small ordinary pails; and, the work becoming much lighter, they were wound up and down at a much more rapid rate. "We shan't be long now, Mr Severn, sir," said Wrench, for each pail as it came up had for its contents half-water and half-mud, the sediment of many, many years.

George Manville Fenn - Glyn Severn's Schooldays