Another Raddle heard from; two, in fact

[lindafowens]

Dear All, once again.  In searching for my weaving books, I've so far located one pattern manual and two on rag rugs, none appropriate.  Must dig under several landslides of Boy Scout projects, art materials, magazines, and stuff thrown into the so-called studio, but I have revealed too much about myself....  I did find The Return of the Native, which I do realize is written in fictional Wessex dialect.  Also, I came across a Dickens Dictionary  with Two Raddles, Mr. and Mrs., the latter being the landlady of Mr. Bob Sawyer, sister to Mrs. Cluppins, and "a thorough shrew".  I have not yet had the pleasure of reading The Pickwick Papers, but to refresh the minds of those of you who may have, Mr. Bob Sawyer met Mr. Pickwick at Mr. Wardle's.  Later, he hangs out his medical shingle as "Sawyer, late Nockemorf".  He has a nice place, but " half the drawers got nothing in 'em, and the other half don't open. "  Indeed, "hardly any thing real in the shop but the leeches; and they are second hand".  Just one of Sawyer's advertising ploys is to send a boy to a house with vague directions on a bottle of pills, with his name in big letters, which each occupant of the house looks at, reads, and passes on.  The next day, the boy collects the errant bottle with many apologies.  "We have got one four-ounce bottle that's been to half the houses in Bristol and hasn't done yet."  More later, Linda, of the raddled brain.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: lindafowens 
  To: fictionary at plover.com 
  Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 10:35 AM
  Subject: Another Raddle


  Dear All, I am still learning the "rules" of the game, so I was a little miffed when nobody believed my real def of "raddle"  to be a weaving term, as I expressed in comments to Elliott.  I just realized, with the help of Judith and Fran, that you demand sources.  I supposed that my weaving teacher Norma Smayda, who has been Pres. of the Weavers' Guild of America, would be enough of a source, but you do not know her or me.  I thought that my experience teaching weaving occasionally in the past would be enough, but you demand print, as you ought.  I will get back to you.  "Someone" must have moved the dozen or so weaving books I own, and it was time to finish organizing my stacks of various books and videotapes and art materials, anyway.  My interests and collections are varied and profuse, alas.  Somewhere in this vast accumulation of treasures there is a copy of Hardy's The Return of the Native, where The Reddleman is a character (he sells the sheep dip).  I alway hoped to find more info on reddle sheep dip, as I have a number of outdoor animals, (but no sheep); but "reddle" wasn't in my dictionary.  Perhaps it was raddle after all. Perhaps also, there is the origin of "dyed in the wool".  Probably some Aussie films  (the ones with the sheep-shearing contests) could have a bit of dyeing, as well.  Is the sheep dip against parasites or in lieu of branding?.  More later, when I find stuff.  Linda
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.swarpa.net/pipermail/fictionary/attachments/20010401/ad86c4b6/attachment-0001.html