He seemed to be possessed with the one idea that to remedy all the grievances of the State it was merely necessary to blow up the Emperor with his horses and carriage, and coolly informed us, without the least reserve, that the bombs manufactured with this political object had been sent over to Paris from England concealed in firkins of butter.

Of his single stories may be mentioned The General Court and Jane Andrews' Firkin of Butter (October, 1847, Graham's Magazine).

2 pints 1 quart 4 quarts 1 gallon 8 gallons 1 firkin of ale 9 gallons 1 firk. of beer 2 firkins 1 kilderkin 2 kilderkins 1 barrel 14 barrel 1 hogshead 2 barrels 1 puncheon 3 barrels 1 butt * *

2 pints 1 quart 4 quarts 1 gallon 8 gallons 1 firkin of ale 9 gallons 1 firk. of beer 2 firkins 1 kilderkin 2 kilderkins 1 barrel 14 barrel 1 hogshead 2 barrels 1 puncheon 3 barrels 1 butt * *

Eight gallons one firkin make, Of liquor that's call'd ale Nine gallons one firkin of beer, Whether 'tis mild or stale.

Eight gallons one firkin make, Of liquor that's call'd ale Nine gallons one firkin of beer, Whether 'tis mild or stale.

At first a butter-firkin had made him an ample den, but he rapidly passed through the various stagesbutter-firkin, nail-keg, flour-barrel, oil-barreland had now to be graded as a good average hogshead Bear, though he was far from filling that big round wooden cavern that formed his latest den.

At first a butter-firkin had made him an ample den, but he rapidly passed through the various stagesbutter-firkin, nail-keg, flour-barrel, oil-barreland had now to be graded as a good average hogshead Bear, though he was far from filling that big round wooden cavern that formed his latest den.

Nor was he content with giving us our personal fill; into every crevice of our firkin he packed a pellet of future indigestion.

"Pluck the superabundant huckleberry," said they, "while we, suspending your firkin and your traps upon the setting-pole, tote them, as the spies of Joshua toted the grape-clusters of the Promised Land.

Cancut's elongated head-piece, the birch, was his share of the burden; and a bag of bread, a firkin of various grub, damp blankets for three, and multitudinous traps, seemed more than two could carry at one trip over this longest and roughest of portages.

How light our firkin was growing!

Your black face is splotched with brown and yellow patches, and your hair shines as though you had fallen head-foremost into a firkin of butter.

leave our stage to mourn, Till rich from vanquished rebels you return; And the fat spoils of Teague in triumph draw, His firkin-butter, and his usquebaugh.

"His own and wife's wardrobe are packed up in a firkin."Parker and Fox's Gram., Part i, p. 73.

"His own and his wife's wardrobe are packed up in a firkin."Parker and Fox cor.

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The firkin in the herdic.

In the latter he had a barrel of sorghum molasses, a firkin of butter, two sheep, a pair of fox-hounds, a hoop-skirt, a corn-sheller, a baby's cradle, a lot of crockery, half a dozen padlocks, two hoes, and a rocking-chair.

You heard of that wonder, of the lightning and thunder, Which made the lie so much the louder: Now list to another, that miracle's brother, Which was done with a firkin of powder.

Here's the firkin o' butter, as yellow as gold And the eggs, in this basketten dozen all told.