Four wine-glasses will fill a half-pint tumbler, or a large coffee-cup.
A quart black bottle holds in reality about a pint and a half; sometimes not so much.
A table-spoonful of salt is about one ounce.
DRY MEASURE.
| Half a gallon | is | a quarter of a peck. |
| One gallon | is | half a peck. |
| Two gallons | are | one peck. |
| Four gallons | are | half a bushel. |
| Eight gallons | are | one bushel. |
Throughout this book, the pound is avoirdupois weight—sixteen ounces.