no-weel-ness

Updated: May 26, 2025

'But I got a postcard yestreen sayin' that the new Road Surveyor would be round the day. He'll come and he'll no find me, or else he'll find me fou, and either way I'm a done man. I'll awa' back to my bed and say I'm no weel, but I doot that'll no help me, for they ken my kind o' no-weel-ness. Then I had an inspiration. 'Does the new Surveyor know you? I asked. 'No him.

John Buchan - The Thirty-Nine Steps