In baskets slung from shoulder poles they carried paddy seedlings, husked rice, fruit, vegetables, matting and even, as Joseph once delightedly pointed out, two live piglets squealing and squirming in separate nets at the pole ends.

With baskets and valises slung over their arms and knapsacks on their backs, they led the horses by the halter.

Either arrange trailing plants in hanging baskets slung from a brass or wooden pole fixed across the window, or intersperse them with herbs and African violets on glass shelves (see above).

The syms have domesticated some of the animal species, including the truss, an oversized bird that has only vestigial wings but has thighs pow-erful enough to carry two people, in baskets slung over the truss's back, one on each side.

It was mostly done by the squaws and children, each equipped with a torch in one hand, and a sharp-pointed stick in the other to take and lift the fish into baskets slung on the back to receive them.

A girl went by at a trot under her mollusc hat carrying two baskets slung on a pole.

The towers remained and during the 1850s intrepid passengers could cross the gorge in a basket slung from the iron bar.

Rescuers improvised, sending a steel cage along the cable to bring some passengers to safety, and using a basket slung from an 18-story construction crane to evacuate the rest.