The milk was put into a little covered tin pail.

Dotty watched Ruth as she strained it, and saw that she poured in not only a quart, but a great deal more.

"Why do you do so ?" said Dotty.

"That's too much." "Your grandmother told me to," replied Ruth, washing the milk-pail.
"She said 'Good measure, pressed down and running over.' That's her way of doing things." "But I don't believe grandma 'spected you to press it down and run it _all_ over.

Why, there's enough in this pail to make a pound of butter.
Come, Katie." "Let me do some help," said the little one, catching hold of the handle, and making the pail much heavier.