Water butt

It would have been better, as it turned out, to have led gently up to this announcement, for Mrs. Micawber, being in a delicate state of health, was overcome by it, and was taken so unwell, that Mr. Micawber was obliged, in great trepidation, to run down to the water-butt in the backyard, and draw a basinful to lave her brow with.

The house was silent save for the wind outside, and the noisy trickling and splattering of water in the water-butts.

Trumpkin went to a flat stone about the size of the top of a water-butt, and stamped on it with his foot.