Mrs. Homan tightened her grip on the pancake turner; Sarah Jane uneasily moved her long fingers within reach of a sturdy little red-and-white pepper-pot.

"Sary Jane," inquired Mrs. Homan sweetly, "what 's the matter with that pepper-pot?

What an old pepper-pot he is!" "Piers isn't much better," remarked the man she had called Dick.

What are you going to tell, you devil's pepper-pot? TISHKA.

That was what had made him the silent fellow he was, always being told by his mother to hold his tongue and have done speaking; and a fine pepper-pot there'd be when Isabella's hasty tongue and temper were flung into that batch!"

For, on examining the outer wall on the side which faced the Germans, I found it looking like the top of a pepper-pot for holes.