Word: pails
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...setting forth the merits of the "New Grand Opera House" performances in Boston, aroused the inhabitants of Little's Block and Holyoke yesterday afternoon by its dulcet bugle-notes. In response to the cries of "More! more!" the band had just started out anew with great vigor when a pail of water from one of the windows above so disconcerted them that they retreated in confusion, and the quavering note of the horns died away in the distance, much to the relief of every...
...elder Aggassiz learned something one day in Chicago. He saw a workman place five bricks in a pail even full of water without causing a drop to run over, and the great naturalist handed the man a $2 bill and made a note of the circumstance...
...that the instructor will be able to adopt one or the other. An improvement could also be made on the present mode of supplying one's self with water for washing paint-brushes. Instead of letting each one bring a glass of water up three flights of stairs, a pail of water should be kept in the room. Aside from the inconvenience, it is almost impossible to keep from spilling the water on the staircase and floor. Unless the authorities wish to have these painted, they will see that water and a slop-jar are put in the room...
...blackboard on which I shall stamp the imprint of my superior intellect. She must be a country girl, in fact. I will come and board for the summer months at her father's house; daily I will accompany her to the old oaken bucket, and fill and carry her pail to the house; during the day we will roam hand in hand through the woods while I pour sweet poetry in her ear; then at even-time we will go to the meadow and bring the cattle home, and I will stand by my dear one in the barn-yard...
...such like, and I guess father could kinder take you to board for the summer at six dollars a week, money paid every Saturday, but all them other things you said hain't no more sense to 'em than apple-parings. Think I'd have you carrying my water-pail round and pestering me all day 'pouring sweet poetry in my eye'? I think I see myself! As for your reciting the 'Potter's Saturday Night' while I milk, I guess them clothes of yours ain't meant to travel round our barn-yard much, 'sides, the smell...