gretting

Updated: May 13, 2025

Thinking he was looking at the empty places about the walls, Pete began to enlarge on his prosperity, and to talk as if he were driving all the trade of the island before him. "Wonderful fishing now, Phil. I'm exporting a power of cod. Gretting postal orders and stamps, and I don't know what. Seven-and-sixpence in a single post from Liverpool that's nothing, sir, nothing at all."

Sir Hall Caine - The Manxman: A Novel - 1895