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Updated: June 18, 2025
Then one day I got a letter from "Kipper" to say he was over for a holiday and was stopping at Morley's, and asking me to look him up. He had not changed much except to get a bit fatter and more prosperous- looking. Of course, we talked about her ladyship, and I told him what she said. "Rum things, women," he says; "never know their own minds."
Pivi went, and deep in the clear water they saw a monstrous shell-fish, like an oyster, as big as a rock, with the shell wide open. 'We shall catch it, and dry it, and kipper it, said Pivi, 'and give a dinner to all our friends! 'I shall dive for it, and break it off the rock, said Kabo, 'and then you must help me to drag it up into the canoe.
I'd been there about a fortnight, and was feeling pretty sick of it, when in walked young "Kipper." I didn't know him at first, he'd changed so. He was swinging a silver-mounted crutch stick, which was the kind that was fashionable just then, and was dressed in a showy check suit and a white hat. But the thing that struck me most was his gloves.
'Ero Edwards had been wanting to see her to tell her that the war would be over in June, and that the Edwards's nephew knew on the best authority that the Kaser couldn't get no kipper to his breakfast any more because Preserdink Wilson was a-holding of them up upon the high seas, and that Jimmy Wragge was "wanted" for "helping himself," and that young Dusty Morgan, the lodger, had gone for a soldier, and his wife had taken his job as driver of a van.
Yet occasionally, in olden days, a salmon big as Tam Purdie's muckle kipper was got by rod and line. In 1815 Rob Kerss, the famous "Rob o' the Trows," hooked a leviathan in Makerstoun Water the biggest fish, he said, that ever he saw; so big that it took even so great a master as Rob hours to land, and left him "clean dune oot."
Possibly he thinks the mysterious demand for a kipper carries with it some charge of ill-treating his wife; which his national sense of honour swiftly resents.
I shouldn't feel much anxiety as to the result." "My confounded leg!" said Puffin. "But I know a retired captain from His Majesty's merchant service the King, God bless him! aged fifty " "Ho! ho! Fifty, indeed!" said the Major, thinking to himself that a dried-up little man like Puffin might be as old as an Egyptian mummy. Who can tell the age of a kipper?... "Not a day less, Major.
This was the hour at which, in England, we would sip a cup of tea as an excuse for talk with a pretty woman in her drawing-room; but having tramped steadily for some hours in mountain air, I was in a mood to understand the tastes of that class who like an egg or a kipper for "a relish to their tea."
I'd ruther 'ave my ole man, down W'itechapel way; 'e can belt yer a fair terror, w'en 'e's drunk, but 'e'll allers tike yer out an' buy yer a kipper arterwards. Thet's on'y decent, fatherly feelin'." "Well, Master don't belt 'er, does 'e?" "No; but 'e don't buy 'er the kipper, neither.
For a moment Van Diest said nothing, then remarked: "Smart man, you know. Smart man." "He's made a mistake," said Laurence. "How in hell could he see Barraclough when " There was no point in finishing the sentence. "S'not often he make a mistake. Our opponents haf been ver' quiet, you know, ver' quiet. Perhaps now they draw the kipper across the path." "He's got bats," said Hipps.
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