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Some had jars, or pails, or little tubs of water; some had baskets heaped up with oranges, or other fruit. Some had long boards with a row of loaves of dough upon them, which they were taking to the bakers to be baked. The sidewalks, especially on the side towards the harbor, were thronged with people living in the open air, and practising their various trades there.
The minutest particles were driven through a fine wire screen which fitted close around the battery, and were washed into great tubs warmed by super-heated steam amalgamating pans, they are called. The mass of pulp in the pans was kept constantly stirred up by revolving "mullers."
The tubs were thrown down, and went leaping and bounding down to the shore, while the men followed James, at full speed, down the path. Their pursuers were close behind. There was no longer any use in concealment.
A yell of triumph burst from the Indians, but this changed into one of wrath as those above emptied the contents of one of the great tubs of water on to the pile of wood below them. The flames were instantly extinguished. "What will they do next?" Mrs. Welch asked. "It's like enough," Pearson replied, "that they'll give the job up altogether.
Two of his children were saved by the courage and sagacity of his negro slave Hagar. She carried them into the cellar and covered them with tubs, and then crouched behind a barrel of meat just in time to escape the vigilant eyes of the enemy, who entered the cellar and plundered it.
I walked on some butter tubs in the back room and spun around on a whirling stool that stood in front of a high desk and succeeded in the difficult feat of tipping over a bottle of ink without getting any on myself. I covered the multitude of my sins on the desk with a newspaper and sat down quietly in a chair. By and by I asked, "Are you 'most ready to go?"
But the deck of the schooner was a mass of the bait, and the tubs of salt clams brought from Freekirk Head could be saved until later. Rockwell, who had been looking out forward, suddenly called Code's attention to a flock of sea-pigeons floating on the water a mile ahead.
Arrived at the top, you find a busy crowd of men receiving the ascending cars and tubs and dumping the ore from an elevation into long rows of bins capable of holding half a dozen tons each; under the bins are rows of wagons loading from chutes and trap-doors in the bins, and down the long street is a procession of these wagons wending toward the silver mills with their rich freight.
She hurried over the Bridge of Sighs, for she hoped to get the articles required, and discover Maud without being absent from Assembly Hall too long. The sound of splashing made her stop and listen half way down the corridor. Some one was apparently taking a bath in the faculty tubs. She thought for a minute, and remembered all the teachers were on the platform. A horrible fear entered her mind.
'I'll tell ye what it is, men, said Latimer, about three o'clock in the afternoon, 'we must begin over again. Find them tubs I will.
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