The Tappit Hen contained three quarts of claret-- Weel she loed a Hawick gill, And leugh to see a Tappit Hen.
The Tappit Hen contained three quarts of claret-- Weel she loed a Hawick gill, And leugh to see a tappit hen.
As inspired individuals began to buy up the original Tappit Hens the supply gave out, so the dealers elevated the whisky stoups to the designation of the former.
I am not a statistician, but I dare hazard an opinion that there are ten or may be twenty times more “Tappit Hens” in existence to-day than ever were made.
I do not exaggerate, for I have seen Tappit Hens advertised, and had them sent on approval, only to find the much less valued stoup, or pot-bellied measures as they were often called.
See notes on Tappit Hens and Whisky Stoups (page 54).
Having read so much about Tappit Hens, I have known all about the history a long time ago, and I have forgotten most of it.
Anyway, I was told by a gentleman, whose knowledge and experience of his profession are much greater than they can be of Scottish pewter, that he had just bought a French Tappit Hen!
Now I suppose they are getting done up, and that any old thing with a lid on is a Tappit Hen.
My photograph shows a pair of Tappit Hens and a Chopin.
The name for a Scottish pint measure of a certain shape was “Tappit Hen,” which held two quarts (Imperial).
Alec ran down and brought it cold from the pump, saying, as Mr Cupples returned the tumbler with a look of thanks, "But there's the tappit hen.
He bade on at the Tappit Hen, flinging his siller about in the way that made him a king at Cullew, but no molesting Miss Ailie and Miss Kitty, which all but me thought was what he had come to Thrums to do.
Her man does the orra work at the Tappit Hen public in Thrums.
This was Mrs. Crabb, of the Tappit Hen, the Esther Auld whom Jean Myles's letters had so frequently sent to bed.
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