A huge white pitcher of steaming golden coffee was in his hand.

"Nurse, pour a pitcher of water on him."

She laughed and turned again to the contemplation of the room; on the high mantel was a yellow pitcher, that her grandmother knew was a hundred years old, and in the centre of the mantel were arranged a sugar bowl and a vinegar cruet that Miss Prudence had coaxed away from the old lady; her city friends would rave over them, she said.

Could she earn money to buy another hundred-years-old yellow pitcher?

And if she could earn the money, where could she find the pitcher?

At this moment, if it had not been for that unfortunate pitcher, she would have been reviewing her conversation with Miss Prudence.

But the remembrance of the broken pitcher persisted in bringing itself uppermost, pushing through the blades of grass and the quarts of blueberries; she might as well begin to plan how she was to earn another pitcher!

But the remembrance of the broken pitcher persisted in bringing itself uppermost, pushing through the blades of grass and the quarts of blueberries; she might as well begin to plan how she was to earn another pitcher!

" "Not spilt milk, but only a broken milk pitcher!

Will it do if it isn't a pitcher?" "I'd rather have a pitcher, a yellow pitcher.

Will it do if it isn't a pitcher?" "I'd rather have a pitcher, a yellow pitcher.

Will it do if it isn't a pitcher?" "I'd rather have a pitcher, a yellow pitcher.

"I suppose you want the pitcher immediately.

She remembered all their faceshow Linnet cried and sobbed, how Hollis whispered, "I'll get a pitcher, Mousie, if I have to go to China for it," and how her father knelt by the lounge when he came home and learned that it had happened and was all over, how he knelt and thanked God for giving her back to them all out of her great danger.

It looked round and flat, not one bit like a pitcher, unless some pitchers a hundred years ago were flat.

"I am glad you broke the old yellow pitcher.

It was not half as pretty as the pitcher.

But it was a treasure, twofold more a treasure than the yellow pitcher, for it was twice as old and had come from Holland.

The yellow pitcher had only come from England.

Unto them I will discovernot a swan's nest among the reeds, as Mrs. Browning has it, but an old yellow pitcher that their lovely grandmother was in trouble about fifty years ago.

" "I had you and the pitcher for the foundation," said Miss Prudence, in a tone of mock humility.

"Suppose I had been killed when I fell and had not told you about the pitcher nor made amends for it.

Lieutenant Charles G. Bonner, R.N.R., and Petty-Officer Ernest Pitcher, R.N., were awarded the V.C. for their services in this action, and many medals for conspicuous gallantry were also given to the splendid ship's company.

" Rhyme on an old pitcher of English pottery.

And then, more thrilling than all else, the words of the preacher: "Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.