a slice of treacled bread

A hunner guineas for the heid o' that nowt Renwick, and him no' sae very far awa' frae your very nose at this meenit.

“I don’t know how many informants there were, but it is something we were always aware of,” said Vladimir Nechaev, 19, a former Navalny staffer from St Petersburg, who said he was also pressured to work for the FSB after being arrested for attending an anti-government protest. Nechaev declined the proposition.

How I wish, though, that the Nun had got here in time to take part in that fight, for she can outfoot the old Corsair--Gloucester, I mean--almost two to one.