Then, when I am well, I shall be able to take poor Gilliereally in hand.
The tail of the procession was brought up by a gillie leading, or rather holding in, two brace of remarkably handsome Gordon setters, and another gillie in charge of a patient-eyed pony with a couple of panniers slung over its back.
So Roderick picked up the dead birds and put them on a conspicuous stone, at the same time signalling to the gilliewith the pony, who was slowly coming up.
You say you would almost rather be a gillie in charge of dogs and ponies.
A gillie in charge of dogs and ponies doesn't enjoy many conversations with his young mistress; and if he made bold to demand any closer alliance Pauline would pretty soon have that Claude kicked off the premises--and serve him right.
This was procured," he would say, "by my dear old gillie Angus out of the bird's very nest.
The gillie put us across Loch Rannoch in the dusk of the next day, and gave us his opinion as to our best route.
He was in the Black Watch, when first it was mustered; and, like other gentleman privates, had a gillie at his back to carry his firelock for him on the march.
When we came to the door he was seated by his rock chimney, watching a gillie about some cookery.
It's because you heerd me say that if I were to play that dukkerin' gillie on Snowdon in the places she was fond on, I could tell for sartin whether Winnie wur alive or dead.
Gillie Ciotach, after having, with careful manners, sipped a little of the whiskey.
The Gillie Ciotach was not giving me time, ma'am," answered Barbara, in her pleasant way.
I'll make it up to the Gillie Ciotach--you will see if I don't!
The Gillie Ciotach picked himself up slowly, and slowly and deliberately he took off his jacket.
There's not many would like to hef their head brokken by the Gillie Ciotach.
They got up to the house, and the Gillie Ciotach delivered his parcels, and the newspapers, and one or two letters, and said that Miss Glendinning had sent him over to take back assurances of their safety.
The Gillie Ciotach says he will smash the head of anyone that wants to fight; and I suppose that is one way to stop quarrelling.
It's myself that wass hearing Hector seh that if he wass catching the Gillie Ciotach with a gun, he would brek the gun over his head.
The brothers thought that they would go and try to put a question to him; and the youngest was to stand in place of gillie to the elder brother.
The same thing happened to the twelve maidens, day after day, and the gillie said to the last one that no creature had the answer to the riddle but his master down below.
Myself and my gillie were one day in the forest shooting.
My gillie fired at a hare, and she fell, and he took her skin off, and let her go; and so he did to twelve, he took their skins off and let them go.
Gladys also had gone to consult with the gillie on the question of flies, and thus in ten minutes Lady Dover and Lady Ellington were alone in their after-breakfast stroll.
A hundred yards ahead her gillie had met the running figure, and in a moment he had slung off the creel and started to run towards her, leaving Mr. Osborne to drop down, as if exhausted, in the heather.
Yankee passport and hisgillie with a bag of ready-made rods.
My eyes went to the face of the gillie and encountered the winsome smile of the Young Chevalier.
Five minutes later I was helping the gilliein the boat pull across to Raasay.
The other two were a tattered gillie in the Macdonald tartan and a young woman of most engaging appearance, who was supported in the arms of Clanranald and his henchman.
She came here with a shag-headed gillie of a servant, under the protection of a Captain Macdonald who is a very fine figure of a man.
Instantly, a gillie incongruously in a flower-seller's dress, she was on her feet and walking a little ahead.
Reaching back almost instinctively, I clutched the heavy rifle which Gillie put into my hand and jumped out of the canoe; for with a rifle one wants steady footing.
Weeks before, I had had my introduction to Old Whitehead, as Gillie called him, on the Madawaska.
I have sometimes sought to drown care in the river, whither I go with gillie Bareshanks to fly-fish for trouts.
And now I saw Sir John in full uniform of his rank, badged with mourning, yet all a-glitter with medals and orders, slowly dismount, while gillie Bareshanks held his stirrup.
A gillie rode breakneck for Sir John, who was at the old fort nine miles away.
When the dozen waxen candles stood in a ring, all twinkling, and the decanters flanked me right and left, I bade the gillie leave us, mistrusting he might bear tales to Sir William touching our behaviour at table.
When we come up into my own country we'll get a gillie or two that can be depended on to wait on us, then if we are nipped, one or other of these gillies can easily steal a boat and make for the fleet with your orders to the admiral.
At this the gillie drew from his belt a short black tube that looked like a practising chanter, which indeed it was, and on this he blew a few shrill notes.
The gillieaccompanied them for half an hour or more without making any protest, but at last he said to MacDonald that he thought it was time to return.
They found an agile young gillie at their heels before they were out of sight of Dunvegan.
But the gillie shook his shaggy uncovered head and patiently trod in their footsteps.
I think it is time to go back," suggested the gillie in a dull, uninterested voice.
With cries, with tears, with names of affection, the gillie ran to his master, who I saw was not very seriously injured.
So they set out, and Ingram put Sheila’s hand on his arm, and took her along with him in that fashion, while the tall gillie walked behind with Lavender, who was or was not pleased with the arrangement.
He had scarcely spoken when his attention was called by Duncan to some object that the gillie had been regarding for some minutes back.
The two of them, leaving the gillie to moor the little vessel that had brought them from Callernish, went silently toward the shore, and up the narrow road leading to the house.
While a good student when at school, yet, when at home on his holidays, his highest joy had ever been under the guidance of the faithful oldgillie to follow on the trail of the mountain deer.
Alec's trips to the Highlands of his beloved Scotland, and his excursions with the experienced gillie there, stood him in good service here.
The stalwart Norsk gillie who attends him found it a trifle too easy yesterday, for it gave way and let him into the river.
You step ashore to finish conclusions with your fish, and when your gaffsman is a village worthy who leaves his ordinary occupations to gillie the stranger, accidents are not uncommon.
The gillie was (and is) one of the smartest, now that he has had a few years with the Englishman.
My host had a good deal of correspondence to attend to, and I was often out alone, but his gillie reported that he had placed in the great floating well moored off the veranda 273 fish, the produce of our two rods during the period specified.
The gillie did not take up the gaff now, and my hopes were dashed, for it meant that he had recognised a kelt, which must be tailed.
