mort-skins

Updated: May 6, 2025

But to live the life of the poor drudge her father to be at the command and call of every boor for twenty miles round! why, the labours of a higgler, who travels scores of miles to barter pins, ribbons, snuff and tobacco, against the housewife's private stock of eggs, mort-skins, and tallow, is more profitable, less laborious, and faith I think, equally respectable.

Sir Walter Scott - The Surgeon's Daughter