But he puts it all into the Jug instead of the Basket.

Jug is the juggernaut that crushes his hard earnings in the dust, or, without the figure, distils them into drink.

Jug swallows up the first fruits of his industry, and leaves Basket to glean among the sharpest thorns of his poverty.

Jug is capricious as well as capacious.

It clamors for quality as well as quantity; it is greedy of foaming and beaded liquors.