1There I found my Hindoo bearer, standing with a tattie in his hand.
2Making nonna's meatballs is like me trying to recreate my grandma's Lancashire tattie hash.
3There's no' a polisman nearer than Knockraw-yinJohnnie Trummle, and he's as useless as a frostit tattie.
4And so, smiling, he took my horse and went his way, whistling, "Hey, tuttie, tattie!"
5Yet schoolchildren were still pulling up potatoes in the "tattie holiday" in the mid-1980s, when the process was mechanised.
6Many of its passengers were seasonal farm labourers, "tattie hokers" and others, commuting from Mayo to gather the harvests of England and Scotland.
7Last term she and I and Magsie and Tattie were in Dormitory 4.
8Nan and Tattie, wrapt in identical blankets, were Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
9I can see Fay at her window, and Tattie sitting on the bank above her aunt's tennis-court.
10There was an awful row, and Violet scolded Romola and me, although it was really Tattie's fault.
11She was great chums with the Castletons, though she sparred occasionally with Tattie Carew or with Nan Colville.
12And once he let Tattie and me try to row, but I 'caught a crab' and dropped the oar.
13I know you go creeping into Tattie's bed when you think I'm asleep, and you daren't walk upstairs alone.
14"And, of course, Fay will be there, and Tattie, and the Colvilles!"
15"Mr. Greenhalgh has tried, and says he can't hear of one anywhere," lamented Tattie.
16Merle readily whisked away with Tattie, or Nan, or Lizzie, but shy Mavis, after the first two-step, stood in a corner unnoticed.