spirruts

Updated: May 26, 2025

Quinn, wid my love, for I know that she's been talkin' to you, an' you've been listenin', that she ought to ondherstand the differ 'twixt a man an' a ghost. She's had three husbands," sez I, "an' you've got a wife too good for you. Instid av which you lave her to be boddered by ghosts an' an' all manner av evil spirruts. I'll niver go talkin' in the way av politeness to a man's wife again.

Rudyard Kipling - Soldiers Three

Quinn, wid my love, for I know that she's been talkin' to you, an' you've been listenin', that she ought to ondherstand the differ 'twixt a man an' a ghost. She's had three husbands, sez I, 'an' you've, got a wife too good for you. Instid av which you lave her to be boddered by ghosts an' an' all manner av evil spirruts. I'll niver go talkin' in the way av politeness to a man's wife again.

Rudyard Kipling - Indian Tales