Better say simply "He died," or colloquially "He kicked the bucket," than "He propelled his pedal extremities with violence against the wooden pail which is customarily employed in the transportation of the aquatic fluid.

Sister Winifred came hurrying over the snow to the cow-house with a little tin pail in her hand.

Robert, his son, unhorsed the old gentleman at one time, and would have killed him anonymously, each wearing at the time a galvanized iron dinner-pail over his features, but just at the fatal moment Robert heard his father's well-known breath asserting itself, and withheld his hand.

Light as the breeze that hails the infant morn The Milkmaid trips, as o'er her arm she slings Her cleanly pail, some fav'rite lay she sings As sweetly wild and cheerful as the horn.

He vaulted from his bicycle suddenly, as they were bowling past a little gray house set in weeds, and the others, looking back, saw him carrying a dripping pail of water along the path to the kitchen doorsteps.

The female portion of such assemblages, for the most part, consists of poor Salopian strawberry-carriers, many of whom have walked already at least four miles, with a troublesome burden, and for a miserable pittanceegg-women, with sundry still-born chickens, goslings, and turkey-poutsand passing milk-maidens, peripatetic under the yoke of their double pail.

" Dan lifted the red curtain from the cupboard, found an emptied lard-pail, half filled it with water and placed it on an oil-stove that stood in the center of the room.

When he came into the castle yard, a beautiful maid stood by the brook, who had two golden pails in her hand, drawing water; and when she had filled them and had turned round, she saw a strange man, and asked who he was.

In front of them was a confusion of blackened pails and steaming vessels, into which they dipped with their naked fingers.

There are a great quantity of bright and appropriate pictures on the walls, three windows full of plants, a canary chirping in a gilded cage, a globe of gold-fish, an open piano, and an old-fashioned sofa, which is at present adorned with a small scrap of a boy who clutches a large slate in one hand, and a mammoth lunch-pail in the other....

As we the Berserk's tale Measured in cups of ale, Draining the oaken pail, Filled to o'erflowing.

Good Mr. Ware came down with all his men, And filled the house with lovely oily pails, And went away to lunch at half-past ten, And came again at tea-time with some nails, And laid a ladder on the daffodil, And opened all the windows they could see, And glowered fiercely from the window-sill On me and Mrs. Tompkinson at tea, And set large quantities of booby-traps

Put into the outer pail some pounded ice, upon which strew some saltpetre; then fix the pewter freezing-pot upon this, and surround it entirely with ice and saltpetre.

Then he dropped his precious pail, and came and licked my face like a little dog, which is his way of kissing.

It wuzn't so, he hadn't carried up more'n thirty or forty twelve quart pails.

The edge of it was all littered with rusty tin pails and saucepans and such-like, and by-and-by Lewis found the things he'd 'ad to go 'ome without a few hours afore, but they didn't seem to find that sack, and Bob Pretty, wot was talking to 'is wife, began to look 'opeful.

I lay in the warm straw against her warm flanks, I drank out of the stable pails.

THE HUMAN SACRIFICE The valley was an ill place even for the body, a lair of rheums and agues; and disembodied fevers waited in wells for the sunk pail.

I send you to bring me only a little drop"she was by Sebastian now, holding out the small pail, unmindful of the others, who were talking stock"and you stay, and stay" "Give me your can."

The river murmured agreeably and the rushes stirred softly in the breeze; Mr. Blows, who could fall asleep on an upturned pail, succumbed to the influence at once; the pipe dropped from his mouth and he snored peacefully.

Good Mr. Ware came down with all his men, And filled the house with lovely oily pails, And went away to lunch at half-past ten, And came again at tea-time with some nails, And laid a ladder on the daffodil, And opened all the windows they could see, And glowered fiercely from the window-sill On me and Mrs. Tompkinson at tea, And set large quantities of booby-traps

Thus ends the youth, the buzzing meadow rung, And thus the rival of his music sung: 40 When suns by thousands shone in orbs of dew, I, wafted soft, with Zephyretta flew; Saw the clean pail, and sought the milky cheer, While little Daphnè seized my roving dear.

A basket of suitable size covered with a clean white napkin is better for use than the conventional dinner pail, in which air-tight receptacle each food is apt to savor of all the others, making the entire contents unappetizing, if not unwholesome.

Place in cheesecloth on the ice or in a covered pail until needed.

A dented lard-pail without a handle did meagre duty as a teakettle, and balanced upon a corner of the stove was a dirty frying pan.