He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first. Tale of a Tub. Dedication. Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship. 1 Tale of a Tub.
Bread is the staff of life.
2 Tale of a Tub. 3139 Books, the children of the brain. Tale of a Tub. As boys do sparrows, with flinging salt upon their tails. 3 Tale of a Tub.