Posted by Ed Kiser on March 21, 2003 at 22:43:04 from 64.12.96.103 user Kisered.
In Reply to: Re: Goddling posted by John Nichols on March 20, 2003 at 14:11:36:
To "flesh out" this reference to "guddling", as found
in KIDNAPPED (Stevenson) chapter 21.
THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE HEUGH OF CORRYNAKIEGH
We slept in the cave, making our bed of heather bushes which we
cut for that purpose, and covering ourselves with Alan's
great-coat. There was a low concealed place, in a turning of the
glen, where we were so bold as to make fire: so that we could
warm ourselves when the clouds set in, and cook hot porridge, and
grill the little trouts that we caught with our hands under the
stones and overhanging banks of the burn. This was indeed our
chief pleasure and business; and not only to save our meal
against worse times, but with a rivalry that much amused us, we
spent a great part of our days at the water-side, stripped to the
waist and groping about or (as they say) guddling for these fish.
The largest we got might have been a quarter of a pound; but they
were of good flesh and flavour, and when broiled upon the coals,
lacked only a little salt to be delicious.
Ed Kiser, South Florida