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For Drumtochty had its own constitution and a special throat disease, as became a parish which was quite self-contained between the woods and the hills, and not dependent on the lowlands either for its diseases or its doctors. "He's a skilly man, Dr. MacLure," continued my friend Mrs.
I paid not the slightest heed, but my heart beat fast and I could feel the perspiration standing all over my face. "I don't care; he's a pauper. I wonder what Old Browny will feed him on." "Skilly," said Courtenay; and the boys laughed again.
In payment for his lodging, his two chunks of dry bread and his pint of skilly, he had been compelled to pick his quantum of oakum. The man's fingers were, of course, as delicate as a lady's, and in the course of our talk he held them out to me, showing the tips all raw and bleeding and thick with tar.
And you standing there like a straw bogle and rinning to fetch your ain sword like a doggie with a pocket-napkin! David, this man Duncansby must be something altogether by-ordinar! He maun be extraordinar skilly. If I had the time, I would gang straight back and try a turn at him mysel'. The man must be a provost." "You silly fellow," said I, "you forget it was just me."
"Confound you, sir: are you full of quicksilver!" "No. It's skilly," said the boy, "and I ain't full now I'm ever so hungry." The doctor held him tightly, for he was just off again.
It was no mere meal, it was no coarse orgy, but a little feast for the fastidious gods, not unworthy of Lucullus at his worst. And I who had bolted my skilly at Wormwood Scrubbs, and tightened my belt in a Holloway attic, it was I who sat down to this ineffable repast!
Even when they heard the words these strange fellow-citizens used, meaning often failed to accompany sound. 'Oh, is that Mary? A rollicking young rough, with his hat on the extreme back of his head, began to sing, 'Molly Darling. ''Ow'd yer like the skilly? another shouted up at the girl. 'Skilly? whispered Mrs. Fox-Moore. Vida in turn shook her head.
Our artillery lost its value, and we met them with fusil and caliver. They came on in a sort of echelon of four companies, close ordered, and not as a more skilly commander would make them, and the leading company took the right.
For Drumtochty had its own constitution and a special throat disease, as became a parish which was quite self-contained between the woods and the hills, and not dependent on the lowlands either for its diseases or its doctors. "He's a skilly man, Doctor MacLure," continued my friend Mrs.
'By the bye, I further found out what made the Captain enlist. 'Trust you for doing that! laughed her sister. 'Really it was not on purpose, but old Zack Skilly was indulging me with some of his ancient smuggling experiences, in what he evidently views as the heroic age of Rockquay. "Men was men, then," he says.
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