whutret

Updated: May 3, 2025

"Mrs Moss has not come, I see," he said, as the groom reined up. "Oo, ay, sir, she's come. But she iss a queer leddy. She's been chumpin' in an' oot o' the waginette a' the way up, like a whutret, to admire the scenery, as she says. When we cam' to the heed o' the pass she chumped oot again, an' telt me to drive on slow, an wait at the futt o' the first hull for her. She's no far ahint."

R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - The Eagle Cliff