Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer — Complete

by Walter Scott

  NOTE 4, p. 232

  The cleek here intimated is the iron hook, or hooks, depending from thechimney of a Scottish cottage, on which the pot is suspended whenboiling. The same appendage is often called the crook. The salmon isusually dried by hanging it up, after being split and rubbed with salt,in the smoke of the turf fire above the cleeks, where it is said to'reist,' that preparation being so termed. The salmon thus preserved iseaten as a delicacy, under the name of kipper, a luxury to which Dr.Redgill has given his sanction as an ingredient of the Scottishbreakfast.--See the excellent novel entitled MARRIAGE.