Chapter Gibson to Gilla Dacker and his Horse of G by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Giles (Will), apprentice of Gibbie Girder the cooper at Wolf’s Hope village. —Sir W. Scott: Bride of Lammermoor (time, William III.).

Giles, the “farmer’s boy,” “meek, fatherless, and poor,” the hero of Robert Bloomfield’s principal poem, which is divided into “Spring,” “Summer,” “Autumn,” and “Winter” (1798).

Giles of Antwerp, Giles Coignet, the painter (1530–1600).

Gilfillan (Habakkuk), called “Gifted Gilfillan,” a Cameronian officer and enthusiast.—Sir W. Scott: Waverley (time, George II.).

Gill (Harry), a farmer, who forbade old Goody Blake to carry home a few sticks, which she had picked up from his land, to light a wee-bit fire to warm her self by. Old Goody Blake cursed him for his meanness, saying he should never from that moment cease from shivering with cold; and sure enough, from that hour, a-bed or up, summer or winter, at home or abroad, his teeth went “chatter, chatter, chatter still.” Clothing was of no use, fires of no avail, for, spite of all, he muttered, “Poor Harry Gill is very cold.”—Wordsworth: Goody Blake and Harry Gill (1798).

No word to any man he utters,
A-bed or up, to young or old;
But ever to himself he mutters,
“Poor Harry Gill is very cold.”

Gilla Dacker and his Horse (The Pursuit of the). This is one of the old Celtic romances, and has been described as “a marvellous and very beautiful creation.” It is a humorous story of a trick, and a very serious practical joke, which was played by Avarta, a Dedannan enchanter, on sixteen of the Feni (Fingal’s heroes), whom he carried off on his horse from Erin to “The Land of Promise;” and of the adventures of Finn (Fingal), Dermat O’Dyna (q. v.), and the others in their pursuit of Avarta, who had taken the shape of the Gilla Dacker (Lazy Fellow), to recover their companions.