Mortality...

[CyrusGeo at netscape.net]

Otto wrote:

> "There was a tree outside her apartment house on P St. and Brennan had
climbed up this tree and waited for her to collie out and whenever she did
he would proclaim his passion for her in loud and improvised blank verse."
(Mortality And Mercy In Vienna )

> What's "to collie out"?
> Otto

Probably "to come out cautiously". Possible relation to "colly" (to turn the neck from side to side; said of birds).

Cyrus

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