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Updated: June 14, 2025
'On what account? asked Mr Tappertit, who had been quenching his fiery face in a half-gallon can. 'Don't you consider this a good beginning, mister? 'Give me security that it an't a ending, rejoined the hangman. Ah, said the hangman, in a tone of deep disgust, 'it makes me blush for my feller creeturs. I wish I had been born a ox, I do!
When the vegetables are dried and ready, the following directions must be observed. Put some of them into a half-gallon stone jar, and pour over them a quart of boiling vinegar. Next day take out those vegetables; and when drained, put them into a large stock jar. Boil the vinegar, pour it over some more of the vegetables, let them lie all night, and complete the operation as before.
They made a list of the things they needed, took another hike into Nyack and came back laden with material and provisions. Roy poured a half-gallon or so of kerosene into each of the two cylinders and left it over night. The next morning when he drained it off the wheel turned over easily enough.
But down to the last half-gallon, our thirst was unquenchable. The store's supply of salmon and dried beef went begging, while it kept a team busy hauling canned tomatoes, sauerkraut, vinegar. People could not afford lemons, so vinegar and soda were used to make a refreshing, thirst-quenching drink. Homesteaders reached the point where the whole family washed in the same quart of water.
I haven't moist'ned my chaffer this blessed day." "Half a gallon a day, bo', and no more," says a sailor next him. "Yes, what have yer done with yer half-gallon, eh?" asked the Crow derisively. "Someone stole it," said the sufferer. "He's been an' blued it," squealed someone. "Been an' blued it to buy a Sunday veskit with! Oh, ain't he a vicked young man?"
There was a demand for jam, and the unsophisticated half-gallon loaf instead of the conventional thin bread and butter. 'Eat as much as you like, dears, said Aunt Betsy, 'but remember that your father will expect you to have some appetite at seven. 'We won't disappoint him, said Bessie; 'seven is an hour and half from now. Blanche can do wonders in an hour and a half.
"Doubtless the phenomenon was subjective," he said, with a somewhat ludicrous transition to the slang of science. "Granting the possibility of spiritual apparition and even materialization, yet the apparition and materialization of a half-gallon brown clay jug a piece of coarse, heavy pottery evolved from nothing that is hardly thinkable."
The next was a box without a lock; the lid was forced up, and they found a dozen half-gallon square bottles of gin stored in divisions. "That's Hollands, sir, I know," said Ready; "what shall we do with it?"
"Oh, punch, you are my darlin'," hummed another, as a large, square, half-gallon decanter of whiskey was placed on the table, the various decanters of wine being now ignominiously sent down to the end of the board without any evidence of regret on any face save Sir George Dashwood's, who mixed his tumbler with a very rebellious conscience.
Take a half-gallon, or larger, tin "billy can," enclose it in a strong cotton handkerchief or cotton cloth, knotting same over the lid, invert, and, taking the knot in the hand, you have a floating appliance which will sustain you in any water, whether you are a swimmer or not. The high silk hat of civilisation would act as well as the can, but these are not usually found far afield.
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