wind-bill

Updated: July 24, 2025

Well, I read it, and note the contents; and this day, as if it had been a wind-bill in the literal sense of the words, I search everywhere, and lose three hours of my morning turn over all my confusion in the writing-desk break open one or two letters, lest I should have enclosed the sweet and quickly convertible document in them, send for a joiner, and disorganise my scrutoire, lest it should have fallen aside by mistake.

Sir Walter Scott - The Journal of Sir Walter Scott: From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford