blowin's-up

Updated: May 17, 2025

"The master is uncommon fond of blowin's-up and inquirin' into the natur' of things. I never know'd another except one as beat 'im at inwestigation, but that one beat everybody I ever seen or heard of. He was a Scotch boy, named Sandy " "What was his other name?" asked the skipper. "'Aven't a notion," replied Lancey. "We never called 'im anythink else. I don't believe he 'ad any other name.

R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - In the Track of the Troops