United States or Germany ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !


SAIN, mark with the sign of the cross, bless. SAIR, sore, very. SAUMON, salmon. SAUT, salt. SAY, a sample. SCHELLUM, a rascal. SCOUPING, scowping, skipping, leaping, running. SEANNACHIE, a Highland antiquary. SHEARING, reaping, harvest. SHILPIT, weak, sickly. SHOON, shoes. SIC, siccan, such.

"Take a glass of wine, Sir Arthur, and drink down that bead-roll of unbaptized jargon, that would choke the devil why, that last fellow has the only intelligible name you have repeated they are all of the tribe of Macfungus mushroom monarchs every one of them; sprung up from the fumes of conceit, folly, and falsehood, fermenting in the brains of some mad Highland seannachie."

"That," said the humorist, tilting back his straw hat, "is the very reason they call it the Gray Lake. The world bristles with misnomers." "Which explains," said the lady sceptic, "why they call Eamonn a seannachie." "Hi!" called out the humorist. "Do you hear that, Eamonn?" "Cad ort?" asked Eamonn.

For amusement, the bard recited the praises of the deceased chief, and expressed the clan's confidence in the blossoming virtues of his successor. The seannachie recited the genealogy of the tribe, which they traced to the race of the Dalriads; the harpers played within, while the war pipes cheered the multitude without.

"Take a glass of wine, Sir Arthur, and drink down that bead-roll of unbaptized jargon, that would choke the devil why, that last fellow has the only intelligible name you have repeated they are all of the tribe of Macfungus mushroom monarchs every one of them; sprung up from the fumes of conceit, folly, and falsehood, fermenting in the brains of some mad Highland seannachie."