Posted by Ed Kiser on March 22, 2006 at 23:05:23 from 205.188.117.66 user Kisered.
In Reply to: Re: tuppence back posted by Jock on March 22, 2006 at 22:06:14:
In WH, there was a ginger-beer bottle they used on Cache Island. Had a cork in it.
In WH, they fed the sick sheep with a bottle of warm milk.
In WD, they had a supply of ginger bottles on board. Roger almost lost a tooth when a bottle hit his mouth when the boat lurched in the waves.
In WD, there was a bottle of MEDICINAL RUM.
In BS, they had a supply of ginger beer under Joe's bunk.
In BS, the fisherman gave the D&G 4 bottles of Ginger Beer.
In BS, when the D&G made their big purchase at the store with their newly early money, they bought a dozen bottles of ginger beer.
In CC, Mrs. Barrable bought some bottles of lemonade at Potter. She also bought at another time 4 bottles of lemonade from a provision boat.
In GN, Roger had two bottles of lemonade with him in his look out post.
In GN, they carried bottles of lemonade in their knapsacks and these were sealed with cork.
In PD, Peter Duck spoke of putting some grass and crabs in a bottle and sealing the cork with sealing wax to take home to the family as a novelty.
In PM, Jackie provided a milk bottle.
In PM, Nancy provided a tiny medicine bottle (ginger wine) to wang on the Scarab to christen her.
In PM, part of the stolen loot was a collection of chemical acid bottles, with glass stoppers.
In PM, the lunch with Slater Bob involved a few bottles of beer, as well as bottles of lemonade.
In PP, their original supplies taken to the gold fields included three dozen bottles of ginger pop. These were later referred to as bottles of ginger-beer (grog). Roger observed the only thing wrong with these bottles is they are not big enough inside.
In PP, CF's study had many bottles of assorted chemicals.
In SA, for Vicki's birthday, Mom brought 6 bottles of ginger beer.
In SA, they had a large and a small bottle of milk.
In SA, John bought in Rio 4 bottles of ginger beer, making the mistake of calling it grog before the grocer.
In SD, the carried in the knapsack from Beckfoot a large bottle of lemonade that was stoppered with a cork when hiking to the mountain top. It was referred to as "nectar."
In SD, the charcoal - burners had their milk in a green bottle.
In SD, CF brought some supplies of ginger beer to Horseshoe Cove right after the sinking.
In SW, Susan used an iodine bottle from the emergency First Aid Box.
In SW, they had supplies of ginger beer with them.
In SW, Bottles of air were used as marker floats, anchored to show the channel.
In SW, there was a bottle of Bovril and a bottle of Ink.
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But it is not all that specific that the "bottles" referenced above were STONE bottles.
In SA, they drank RIO grog from "stone bottles." But this is the ONLY reference to the STONE BOTTLE.
The cork used as a stopper was mentioned several times, but that does not necessarily prove the bottle was a stone bottle.
Ed Kiser, South Florida