Flowerpot-ful

Every one has heard of the language of flowers, in which lack-a-daisical young ladies might talk sweet stuff by the flowerpot-ful for hours together; […]

It begins with a flowerpot-ful of water sousing a pretty lady below on the curb, and the young wife has her brought up at once to be dried out and warmed inside with hot tea.

Auditorium and stage were sheltered from the sun by a coloured canvas roof. A couple of flowerpots-ful of wheat played at being a cornfield in front of a plain backcloth. The piece was called Bucco the Peasant.