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• She looks at me out of her big eyes as if she thought me her friend So Mabel took the tin pail, and sat down on the little low milking-stool; and soon, to her father's astonishment, she finished milking, the cow having stood all the while as quiet as a lamb It was found that the cow had been badly treated by the man who had owned her, and who had been in the habit of milking her. —  The Nursery, May 1873, Vol. XIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest People
• He put the brush in the pail, and came over and stood in front of Jack Rabbit, and said Why can't you whitewash me?" —  Hollow Tree Nights and Days
• Don't you know that swill-pail wants emptying, without being told of it I always feed the pigs three times a day whether the pail wants emptying or not," I ventured to reply, in defence of the pigs rather than myself There, carry it along, and don't spill it The pail was filled even with the brim, and it was simply impossible to avoid spilling it What a careless fellow you are!" —  Down The River Buck Bradford and His Tyrants
• He was very careful of this pail--or its contents, for he feared to lose a drop. —  At Fault
• Here is a whole ocean of red paint in this pail, and there is a stack of brushes. —  At the Little Brown House

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