At the other end were piles of new-looking boxes, containing groceries of various kinds, rolls of cotton cloth and other dry goods, and, what attracted his attention more than anything else, a vast number of bright tin cans, bearing on their sides brilliant pictures of tomatoes, peaches, green corn, and other preservable eatables.
"The Late Mrs. Null"
Frank Richard Stockton
We are therefore forced to conclude, from the aspect of living nature to-day, that for ages the early organisms had no hard and preservable parts.
"The Story of Evolution"
Joseph McCabe