'the sunny seat
Round the stone table under the dark pine.'
Ed.
In the dialect of the North, a hawker of earthen-ware is thus designated.—W. W. 1819 (second edition).
Compare The Prelude, book v. l. 448:
'At last, the dead man, 'mid that beauteous scene
Of trees and hills and water, bolt upright
Rose, with his ghastly face, a spectre shape
Of terror.'
Ed.