Northend, Mary Harrod, 1850- · Boston, Little, Brown, and company · leaf 396
venteenthcentury. In size, they varied from a capacityof one quart to three. They were often fitted witha whistle, by the blowing of which the butlersattention could be called to the fact that the tank-ard needed filling. From this custom arose theold saying, Let him whistle for it. The singu-lar…
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