United States or Montenegro ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Waverley's wearied wi' majoring yonder afore the muckle pier-glass; and that grey auld stoor carle, the Baron o' Bradwardine, that shot young Ronald of Ballenkeiroch, he's coming down the close wi' that droghling coghling bailie body they ca' Macwhupple, just like the Laird o' Kittlegab's French cook, wi' his turn-spit doggie trindling ahint him, and I am as hungry as a gled, my bonny dow; sae bid Kate set on the broo', and do ye put on your pinners, for ye ken Vich Ian Vohr winna sit down till ye be at the head o' the table; and dinna forget the pint bottle o' brandy, my woman.
A man whom he had never seen before was employed one night to sit up with him . Being asked next morning how he liked his attendant, his answer was, 'Not at all, Sir: the fellow's an ideot; he is as aukward as a turn-spit when first put into the wheel, and as sleepy as a dormouse. Mr.
So Sir Launcelot knighted Gareth, who, bidding him farewell, hastened after the damsel, for she had ridden on again while the two knights talked. When she saw him coming, she cried: "Keep off! ye smell of the kitchen!" "Damsel," said Sir Gareth, "I must follow until I have fulfilled the adventure." "Till ye accomplish the adventure, Turn-spit? Your part in it shall soon be ended."
Such idiots were usually employed in some simple sort of occasional labour; and if we are not misinformed, the situation of turn-spit was often assigned them, before the modern improvement of the smoke-jack. But, however employed, they usually displayed towards their benefactors a sort of instinctive attachment which was very affecting.
"But your gall is as big as that of a Nile-horse," cried the cook. "It grows," said the dwarf laughing, "when a turn-spit and spoon- wielder like you turns up. There I will sit here." "You are welcome," said the steward, "what do you bring?" "Myself." "Then you bring nothing great." "Else I should not suit you either!" retorted the dwarf.
"But your gall is as big as that of a Nile-horse," cried the cook. "It grows," said the dwarf laughing, "when a turn-spit and spoon-wielder like you turns up. There I will sit here." "You are welcome," said the steward, "what do you bring?" "Myself." "Then you bring nothing great." "Else I should not suit you either!" retorted the dwarf.
"There is danger, of course," I said. "The entire Seneca nation is here with Indian Butler and Brant." "Well, then, we'll turn your Butler into a turn-spit, and make of your wild Brant a domestic gander!" He spoke coolly, a slight smile on his eager, handsome features.
My wife, Polly, had no carpets on the floor, but she had rugs she made of rags. And my darter, Jerusha, what a cook she was! She made pies cooked 'em, I mean in a brick oven, and she stewed her chickens in pots hung on hooks from a swinging crane in the chimney. And then I gave Jerusha a turn-spit, too, which she put before the fire, and I gave her a tin kitchen.
"But your gall is as big as that of a Nile-horse," cried the cook. "It grows," said the dwarf laughing, "when a turn-spit and spoon-wielder like you turns up. There I will sit here." "You are welcome," said the steward, "what do you bring?" "Myself." "Then you bring nothing great." "Else I should not suit you either!" retorted the dwarf.
Then, gaining the land, Gareth cleft in two both helmet and head of the other knight, and turned to the damsel, saying: "Lead on; I follow." But the damsel mocked him, saying: "What a mischance is this that a kitchen-boy should slay two noble knights! Be not over-proud, Turn-spit. It was but luck, if indeed ye did not attack one knight from behind." "Say what you will, I follow," said Sir Gareth.