In the course of the afternoon the honey was deposited in kegs, the kegs were transferred to the canoe, and the whole deposited in the chiente.
These kegs were made by le Bourdon himself, who had acquired as much of the art as was necessary to that object.
In his regular pursuit he had been unusually fortunate; and the little pile of kegs in the centre of his canoe was certainly a grateful sight to his eyes.
I broke my vow, I perjured my soul, I bought your wife with ten kegs of rum!
Anything real special you wanta put in kegs with double sides an' ends which you fill with moonshine.
Anybody comes along, it's thekegs they'd look at cross-eyed.
He was beginning to consider his excavation almost deep enough to bury two ten-gallon kegs and forty bottles of whisky, when the shadow of a head and shoulders fell across the hole.
Casey carried in the kegs while Nolan kept watch for inopportune visitors.
I think I'll just pack in the kegs first, Mr. Nolan.
Smilin' Lou did once--an' you notice to-night he left the kegs be.
They both breathed freer when the two kegs were in the cellar.
We must not fail to fill our water-kegs before we leave this.
At six we got up, watered the horses again, and had breakfast; after which, I filled the kegs and proceeded once more with ten gallons of water to the unfortunate animals we had left behind.
After giving five gallons of water each to my own and the native boy's horse, I sent back the man with the pack-horse and the empty kegs to the depot.
They generally rode in companies of some half-dozen, were mounted upon country horses, and, from having a couple of kegs suspended across the croup, their calling was no mystery.
As in amaze he stood to gaze, The truth can’t be denied, sir, He spied a score of kegs or more Come floating down the tide, sir.
Therefore prepare for bloody war, The kegs must all be routed, Or surely we despised shall be And British valor doubted.
After this I fixed several kegs under water, charged with powder, to explode upon touching anything as they floated along with the tide.
Jouett, commanding at this post, has recently seized sixteen kegs of high-wines.
His resolution broke down at that, and he told how the kegs had been hidden in a large cave at Yellow Rock, which the officers then instructed him to mark with a chalk cross.
Again, in broad daylight, in 1828, a lugger landed a heavy cargo of kegs on the open beach at Bo-Peep.
The most dramatic of these was probably the exploit that befell when he was captaining a party of smugglers conveying two hundred kegs of whisky from the mountains down to Perth.
Official prudence counselled the revenue men to retire for further support; but when they had again returned the smugglers had disappeared, and the kegs with them.
Finally, on the next day a custom-house boat ran over their buoy marking the spot where the kegs had been sunk, and seized them all—over a hundred.
It was an easy matter to store kegs in the churchyard itself, and to take them inland, or into Polperro by the country roads, when opportunity offered, hidden in carts taking seaweed for manure to the fields.
One of the brae-side distillers of Fortingal brought a cart laden with kegs of whisky into Perth, by arrangement with an innkeeper of that town; but the innkeeper refused to pay a fair price.
Kegs of brandy and hollands were piled around; chests of tea, and iron-bound sea-chests contained the chattels and revenues of the Coppinger royalty of the sea.
She had on board several casks and kegs brought by the boatswain from the wreck.
Four hams were also found, and six Dutch cheeses, with two kegsof butter.
He put the kegs on the bird, ran to the forge, and had a long iron lance made for himself; he came back and took farewell of the old woman.
He would not spoil the taste of his mouth with it, but fell to drinking from the rest in such Magyar-Mishka style that when he looked around he saw that the three hundred and sixty-five kegs were empty.
I bring three hundred loaves of bread, three hundred kegs of wine, and three hundred slaughtered oxen," answered he.
Go to the king, and ask him to give thee three hundred loaves of bread, three hundred kegs of wine, and three hundred beeves.
Two small kegs of gunpowder were carried up into the hall, Mr. Kenyon taking up one and the King the other; but in an instant Harry had relieved his father of his load, and Phra had taken the King's.
But all this was satisfactorily overcome at last, the trenches filled and trampled down so as not to betray the danger; the kegs were covered in as well, the ground levelled, and dust and stones thrown over.
Immediately all was stir, the men jumping to their feet and making for the adit that communicated with the cave into which the boat with its load of kegshad already been taken.
The smugglers worked as if for their lives; two, by means of a long rope, hauling the kegsfrom the cave to the adit, whilst the other five carried them to the furzebrake on the hillside and hid them amongst the bushes.
The kegs well bunged, will preserve the wine sound, and when a keg is broached, it must be immediately drawn off and bottled.
Two empty five-gallon kegs were left of his pack; he had not dared to leave them in the cache, to fall apart in the dry and sun-parched air.
These kegs he filled at the tanks and slung on the pack saddle; with them he made his way to the hill of his hopes.
There isn’t so much as a nail anywhere on Quasi plantation, and if there were kegs full, we haven’t a hammer to hit them with.
I’m going to take a look at your well, Tom, and if the water is as good as you say, I’m going to empty the rain water out of the kegs and refill them.
I’ve already begun the filling of the kegs by thimblefuls.
All the rum kegs that had been brought down were in the boats, while all the cigars were piled on the banks.
All the receptacles I set to catch water were nearly full, and as it still rains—a fact that you may have observed for yourselves—I thought it best to empty their contents into the water kegs and set them to catch more.
These kegs are lying on the ground in rows that impressed me as far more orderly than the scoundrels themselves ever think of being.
They had found no fresh water on the island, and there was very little in the water kegs when they left it for their far-away destination.
Tom repeated; “why, that’s the ship’s name I saw marked on some of the cigar cases and rum kegs they had.
For the rest, Captain Larry, I beg to report that one of our water kegs is now full and the other perhaps one-third full.
After I finish filling the kegs we’ll have barely enough left to get through the day on.
I should say there are fifteen or twenty of the kegs in that hovel.
The animals, including insects in tubes, filled nearly two kegs and three bottles, and I had two small cases of stuffed birds, the handiwork of Mr. Dawson.
On the instant the men picked up the kegs they had dropped, a shrill cry passed down the line, and the work was resumed.
They had brought with them blackamoors and several kegsof rum.
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