We had, in singular succession, dead calms and fresh breezes, stiff gales and sudden squalls; saw sharks, flying-fish, and dolphins; spoke several vessels: had a visit from Neptune when we crossed the Line, and were compelled to propitiate his favour with some gallons of spirits, which he seems always to find a very agreeable change from sea water; and touched at Table Bay and at Madagascar.

The usual quantity is twelve gallons per ton.

Each barrel has 30 gallons in it, if not more.

A brewer, says the statute, may sell two gallons of ale for a penny in cities, and three or four gallons for the same price in the country.

Whisky in those days, before the time of present taxes, was sold from the distillery at prices ranging from thirty-five to fifty cents a gallon, about forty-seven gallons to a barrel.

The success of these laboratory experiments led me to a trial of the process on a larger scale, for hitherto only a gallon at any one time had been treated.

One would think notbut if you take notice next time you empty a gallon with a friend, you will see that, sixteen to one, he makes the most convulsive efforts to do with ease what a person would naturally suppose was the easiest thing in the world.

a gallon on molasses and 5s.

which permitted no person to sell spirituous liquors in less quantity than two gallons without a license, for which fifty pounds were to be paid.

Hall Caine's impressions of his life at Ballavolley are vividthe old preacher at the church, the drinking-bouts of "jough"-beer by the gallon amongst the villagers, the donkey rides upon the curragh.

Churns are of all sorts and sizes, from that which churns 70 or 80 gallons by means of a strap from the engine, to the square box in which a pound of butter is made.

She fair scratted the face off a potman that had brought him a gallon from t' 'Chequers.'

But you can't, you really can't, get a gallon into a pint pot, however strenuous the potter.

Pumping sets were installed at the reservoir and pipes were laid towards Karm, and from these the Camel Transport Corps were to fill fanatiseight to twelve gallon tanksfor carriage of water to troops on the move.

Just beyond the platform a wooden booth, with no front to it, had been knocked together out of rough planking, and relays of cooks, with greasy aprons over their soiled gray uniforms, made vast caldrons of stewsalways stewsand brewed so-called coffee by the gallon against the coming of those who would need it.