skin-and-grief

Updated: May 20, 2025

"Also go call me a tikka-gharri and select a very senior horse, blind, angular, withered, wilted, and answering to the name, most obviously, of Skin-and-Grief lest I be taken by the Grizzly-Goslings for a down-trodden plutocrat and a brother and not seen for the fierce and 'aughty oppressor that I am." Public conveyance. "Sahib?" "Tikka-gharri lao, you lazy little 'ound!

Percival Christopher Wren - Driftwood Spars: The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who: Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life

"He's a good man," he said to me afterwards, ruefully looking at the place where his boot-heel had been. "You've got to take your good where you find it. I don't care whether he's a rich amateur or skin-and-grief in a garret as long as he's got the stuff in him. Nobody else could have fetched me up from the East End this afternoon.... So long; see you in a week or so "

Oliver [pseud.] Onions - Widdershins