shade-a

Updated: May 26, 2025

Robert Drury reeled in, hiccuping a maudlin ballad about "Tib and young Colin, one fine day, beneath the haycock shade-a," &c., &c., and cursing to find his fire gone out, and all in darkness. Liquor was ever his master, and to- day the King's health had been a fair excuse.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - The Splendid Spur