It was, as I remember it, a lard
pail, very wide across the top, and without a cover.
The teacher's desk and chair stood on a platform in one corner; there was an uncouth stove, never blackened oftener than once a year, a map of the United States, two blackboards, a ten-quart tin
pail of water and long-handled dipper on a corner shelf, and wooden desks and benches for the scholars, who only numbered twenty in Rebecca's time.
Tod put down the
pail beside the bed, took up the end of rope with the hook--hesitated, and looked at Tommy Brock.
He hit his son on the head with the empty
pail. As it rolled clanging into the street, Jimmie began to scream and kicked repeatedly at his father's shins.
Instead of being permitted to concentrate his attention on his tragedy Nutty had to trudge three-quarters of a mile, conciliate a bull-terrier, and trudge back again carrying a heavy
pail. It was as if one of the heroes of Greek drama, in the middle of his big scene, had been asked to run round the corner to a provision store.
When Tess had changed her bonnet for a hood, and was really on her stool under the cow, and the milk was squirting from her fists into the
pail, she appeared to feel that she really had laid a new foundation for her future.
He put down his
pail, took the white alley, and bent over the toe with absorbing interest while the bandage was being unwound.
Dorothy was shocked to see that the cow had broken her leg off, and that the
pail was lying in several small pieces, while the poor milkmaid had a nick in her left elbow.
Pinocchio followed the directions closely, but, as he had no
pail, he pulled off his shoe, filled it with water, and sprinkled the earth which covered the gold.
The bird hastened to fetch some water, but his
pail fell into the well, and he after it, and as he was unable to recover himself, he was drowned.
Some were small and dark-brown in color; those larger were of a dull tin color; but the really ripe ones were
pails of bright tin that shone and glistened beautifully in the rays of sunshine that touched them.
The good-looking young woman in clogs, swinging the empty
pails on the yoke, ran on before him to the well for water.