He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter of a penny loafour crugmoistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggins, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.

Crug ... piggins.

In the school museum one of these piggins is preserved.

Mr. Piggin, of Long Eaton.

"It was no uncommon sight to see a whole family, father, mother, and from two to five children, collected together around their piggin of hommony, or pail of potatoes, watched by the overseer.

"It was no uncommon sight to see a whole family, father, mother, and from two to five children, collected together around their piggin of hommony, or pail of potatoes, watched by the overseer.

He locked up the papers; and about a week after he asked his housekeeper, one day, in the library: "Had your husband never a brother?" Mrs. Carwell squalled on this sudden introduction of the funereal topic, and cried exemplary "piggins full," as the Judge used pleasantly to say.

At length a little negro girl appeared, walking straight as an arrow, with a piggin full of water on her head.

A very small cedar paila piggin, as they termed itserves to scoop up the river water, and having, by this means, filled a large bucket, they transfer this to their heads, and thus laden, march home with the purifying elementwhat to do with it, I cannot imagine, for evidence of its ever having been introduced into their dwellings, I saw none.

He told me that Mr. K's great objection to the people going to church was their meeting with the slaves from the other plantations; and one reason, he added, that he did not wish them to do that was, that they trafficked and bartered away the cooper's wares, tubs, piggins, &c., made on the estate.