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Whether her guest now understood her meaning, or whether he had to succumb, contented with his ignorance, we are not informed; but few of my readers need to be told that "intilt" is

Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects Earl of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair

I come therefore to the next ingredient in the soup I am providing; for, as the housewife said, "there's mutton intilt," and it is the most important ingredient in the mess.

Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects Earl of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair

The question I put in a wider reference is the question of the Englishman, as expressed in the Scotchwoman's dialect, What's intilt? and I assume that there enter into it, as radically component parts, at least the ingredients of this motley soup.

Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects Earl of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair

But, again, to advance a step further, there are, as the landlady of the inn remarked, "neeps intilt."

Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects Earl of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair

"But what is _intilt_?" said he, impatiently striking in before she had well finished.

Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects Earl of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair

But I must, as I said, hasten on to another ingredient of the dish we are compounding; I refer to barley, for that too, as our gracious hostess would say, is "_intilt_."

Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects Earl of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair

And she began the enumeration again, only with longer pause and greater emphasis at every step, as if she were enlightening a slow apprehension, -- "There's water intilt, there's mutton intilt;" quietly and self-complacently adding, as she finished, "Ye surely ken now what's intilt."

Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects Earl of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair

I am always asking "What's intilt?" and am never satisfied, any more than the English tourist, with a bare enumeration: I must subject the factors included to rational inspection, and watch their play and weigh their worth in connection with interests more general.

Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects Earl of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair

"There's water intilt," she said, "there's mutton intilt, there's pease intilt, there's leeks intilt, there's neeps intilt, and sometimes somethings else intilt."

Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects Earl of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair

"Haven't I been tellin 'ye what's intilt?" she replied.

Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects Earl of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair