johnnie-a'-things

Updated: June 10, 2025

Duff-Whalley had not always been in a position to give dinner-parties; indeed, Mrs. Duff-Whalley had begun life as a "Johnnie-a'-things" in Leith, and that his wife had been his landlady's daughter. But the "wee shop" was in the dim past, if, indeed, it had ever existed except in Mrs. Hope's wicked, wise old head, and for many years Mrs.

O. Douglas - Penny Plain