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Joanna told him of an inspiration she had had with regard to the poorer innings of Great Ansdore she was going to put down fish-guts for manure it had done wonders with some rough land over by Botolph's Bridge "Reckon it'll half stink the tenants out, but they're at the beginning of a seven years lease, so they can't help themselves much."
"Nothing but fisher-folk around here," said Joanna contemptuously "you'll see 'em all in the summer, men, women and children, with heaps of mackerel that they pack in boxes for London and such places so much mackerel they get that there's nothing else ate in the place for the season, and yet if you want fish-guts for manure they make you pay inland prices, and do your own carting."
But then, before I give, as the proverb hath it, "My own fish-guts to my own sea-maws," I must, for the sake of my own character, be very sure that my sea-maw can pick them to some purpose. What say ye? 'I am so far, answered I, 'from wishing to get early into practice, sir, that I would willingly bestow a few days' 'In further study, ye would say, Alan.
Heukbane," said the woman of letters, pursing up her mouth, "ye ken my gudeman likes to ride the expresses himsell we maun gie our ain fish-guts to our ain sea-maws it's a red half-guinea to him every time he munts his mear; and I dare say he'll be in sune or I dare to say, it's the same thing whether the gentleman gets the express this night or early next morning." "Only that Mr.
Heukbane," said the woman of letters, pursing up her mouth, "ye ken my gudeman likes to ride the expresses himsell we maun gie our ain fish-guts to our ain sea-maws it's a red half-guinea to him every time he munts his mear; and I dare say he'll be in sune or I dare to say, it's the same thing whether the gentleman gets the express this night or early next morning." "Only that Mr.
Altogether, to use the vulgar idiom, "The Cornel" was felt to be a safe man to "bring back Galloway fish-guts to Galloway sea-maws." Or, in other words, he would see to it that patronage, like charity, should begin at home and stop there. To set off against this, there was a strong feeling that Galloway had been long enough in opposition.
He built a fine-appearing wharf, too, and an improved jail with a cement floor, and heaven help anybody who threw fish-guts on the shore or didn't keep his land as clean as a new pin.
Accordingly, he gives the names and pedigrees of the whole stud, from "the buggy mare Maiden-head and my wicked little favourite Fish-Guts," up to "my favourite brood-mare Fair Amelia, purchased at a prize sale on the frontier, and bred by the king of Bokhara, with his royal stamp on her near flank stands nearly fifteen and a half hands high, with magnificent action and great show of blood had, when taken, four gold rings in her nostrils, now removed and replaced by silver, which will be stolen by her groom one by one."
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