Scollard

DEER SIR, -- i am not a scollard and can't understand more'n 'alf your letter if you don't lik my cow why not go back were you cum from i dunno what you mean by consequences but if you lay' ands on my cow i'll 'ave the lor of you. ❋ Various (N/A)

The other woman, Janet, was what she called a 'poor scollard', but Tochatti went one better, for she could neither write nor read. ❋ Kathlyn Rhodes (N/A)

I'm no scollard, as poor Mark was, and Lenny would have been, if the Lord had not visited us otherways. ❋ Various (N/A)

So we did middling well, and Jan got one of the men that was a bit of a scollard to write to his mother, and got a hawker to take the letter along for the mending of his shoes. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Oh yes; I've been to school -- board-school scollard. ❋ William Frend De Morgan (1878)

I am no scollard, and so no more from your obedient, humble servant, ❋ Mark Rutherford (1872)

I was a-saying, tells me as how this boy, John, have got a good head, and would make a fine scollard, and how, by-and-by, he means to take him for a stoodient, and make a lawyer on him. ❋ Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1859)

Well, he drew hugely, and so he did, every time he came, so that the great families in the neighbourhood would go to hear him; and he lodged in my house, and had pleasant ways with him, and was what I call a scollard. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

My poor Mark wrote such verses -- ah, he _was_ a scollard! " ❋ Various (N/A)

"I was thinking as you ought to hev been a bricklayer or carpenter, sir, instead of a scollard, and going up to rectory. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

You remember ez I told ez how she was a scollard. " ❋ Bret Harte (1869)