See gillie on Wiktionary
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"text": "When dinner should be over, supper was to follow with scarcely any interval to speak of; and to partake of this other guests should be bidden—Svengali and Gecko, and perhaps one or two more. No ladies! For, as the unsusceptible Laird expressed it, in the language of a gillie he had once met at a servants' dance in a Highland country house, \"Them wimmen spiles the ball!\"",
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"text": "[H]e said, \"I hae the day off tomorrow. I'll take ye out on the Anstey if ye want.\" This met with Patricia's ideas of what was right or fitting. Fishing on a Scottish river with a policeman as ghillie was socially acceptable to her mind.",
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"text": "Before we knew it, we were on a Fokker, twin engine, jet aircraft out of Copenhagen bound for Stavenger, Bergen and Trondheim, Norway, where we rested up for two days before boarding a four passenger float plane in the tiny Village of Hell. The Land Rover manned by our gilly (guide) waited where the A-Elv River joined the sea at the head of the fjord.",
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"text": "[T]hough the fish run small, as indeed they all do in these small rivers, the strength of the water and the broken ground along the banks must make playing them an exciting business. Over twenty have been killed by one rod in a single day, and I should say that in most seasons some lucky man gets a bag of ten. But of course this sort of thing has to be paid for. Ten shillings a day is the charge for the river, and in addition to that there is your gillie.",
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"text": "Before we knew it, we were on a Fokker, twin engine, jet aircraft out of Copenhagen bound for Stavenger, Bergen and Trondheim, Norway, where we rested up for two days before boarding a four passenger float plane in the tiny Village of Hell. The Land Rover manned by our gilly (guide) waited where the A-Elv River joined the sea at the head of the fjord.",
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"text": "Pike they were after. […] They'd sit for hours watching their echo sounder and then when the big bleep would come on it, they'd lower the big baits and wait for the mother of all battles. The first time Frank saw the gear he thought they were going to use depth charges to blow the fish out of the water and he thought this was great crack. Far better than gillying for Northern Irish or Scots who wouldn't give ya a fright. But the Germans were great and every Christmas there'd be a big box of chocolates and clothes from Berlin.",
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