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Updated: May 19, 2025
Grand, patient, long-suffering fellows these men were, up at five, summer and winter, foddering their horses, maybe hours before there would be food for themselves, miserably paid, housed like cattle, and when the rheumatism seized them, liable to be flung aside like a broken graip.
"'Give me the graip, John; give me the graip. "So an' on the night wore through; whiles we would be telling old stories, and there would be times when we sat silent except for auld Kate whimpering at the fireside. "These were the days and these were the nights, ochone and ochone, for the like o' them we'll be seeing nevermore."
The rascal took to drink and that, young man," he added in a monitory tone, "is the end of all things." "I'll soon set the place to rights," said Cosmo. "Let's see where shall I find a graip?" "A grape? what the deuce do you want with grapes in a stable?" "I forgot where I was, sir," answered Cosmo, laughing. "I am a Scotchman, and so I call things by old-fashioned names.
This throwing leister was a heavy spear, or rather a heavy "graip," having five single-barbed prongs of unequal length but regularly graduated. To the bar above the shortest prong was lashed a goats'-hair rope, which was also made fast to the thrower's arm, carefully coiled, as in a whaling-boat the line is coiled, so that it may run free when the fish is struck.
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