I meant nothing in particular by this remark, but it was taken up in an unexpected way.

The big mill building had all its machinery that was removable taken out and hoisted on board one of the schooners by the men who had worked in the mill.

“Aint there something left in that crock Jimmy?” A. J. Smith asked and Jim went out to the wagon in the barn and fetched in the jug of whiskey the men had taken hunting with them.