jam-pot

— […] I found that my three quarters had got hold of the MS. and cut it up! Aye, cut it up, Mr. Editor, and before it was published (had she cut it up afterwards, it would have been but fair criticism, whether she had read it not,) and cut it up into what do you suppose? Into coverings for jam-pots! Heavens! my grand work on the liquidation of the national debt to be as a covering for jam-pots!