The Laird (to little Tomkyns, who is being initiated into the mysteries of deer-stalking). "Don't move a step. Lie down where you are!"
HOW MOSSOO SHOT THE COCK-PHEASANT
(The Gamekeeper's Story)
He were a sort o' Frenchman, sir,
And called hisself a Duck:
I never could make head or tail
O' that there furrin muck!