He brought them water to the fence in a Piggin, and with a wavering hand served it out in a gourd.
"John March, Southerner"
George W. Cable
"It was no uncommon sight to see a whole family, father, mother, and from two to five children, collected together around their Piggin of hommony, or pail of potatoes, watched by the overseer.
"The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus"
American Anti-Slavery Society
Aunt Nancy, expecting this, had used up in cooking all that had been brought: consequently her daughter had to take the Piggin and go to the spring after a fresh supply.
"Stories Of Georgia 1896"
Joel Chandler Harris