quashiet

Updated: May 13, 2025

Another hitch, which carried him clean out of the supper room, and across the narrow piazza; but, in this last movement, he made a regular false step, the two back feet of his chair dropping over the first step of the front stairs, whereupon he lost his balance, and toppling over, vanished in a twinkling, and rolled down half a dozen steps, heels over head, until he lay sprawling on the manger or mule trough before the door, where the Ceases are fed under busha's own eye on all estates for this excellent and most cogent reason, that otherwise the maize or guinea com, belonging of right to poor mulo, would generally go towards improving the condition, not of the quadruped, but of the biped quashiet who had charge of him and there he lay in a convulsion of laughter.

Michael Scott - Tom Cringle's Log