is used for humor including a pun with the nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill", which also involved a well. In George Orwell's Animal Farm, Moses the Raven is allotted a gill of beer a day after he returns, with the implication that this is part of his payment for supporting the farm leaders, the pigs. Dan Simmons' novel, The Terror (2007), makes frequent references to gills of grog and rum. In Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island there are uses of the measure gill, with Israel Hands drinking a gill of brandy in the chapter 'I Strike the Jolly Roger'. In "Kidnapped" the protagonist, David Balfour, is "forced" "to drink about a gill" of brandy. Music The cumulative song "The Barley Mow". The traditional English folk song "Byker Hill" begins with the words, "If I had another penny, I would have another gill." The Fall's song "Edinburgh Man" contains the line "Keep me away from the Festival and just give me a warm quarter-gill." Television A gill is also referenced in Archer season 2, episode 3 ("Blood Test") when Barry explains to Archer that a litre is, "about 8 gills" (the word gill is mispronounced in this exchange). (Eight gills would be , or .) In "Bart the Genius," an episode of The Simpsons, a child tricks Bart by offering, "I'll trade you 1,000 picolitres of my milk for four gills of yours." (A picolitre is a trillionth of a litre, so Bart is losing almost a pint of milk in this exchange.) Mispronunciation Because of its more widely used homograph, gill has sometimes been mispronounced with a hard 'g' sound. FX's animated cartoon Archer, mispronounced gill in the episodes "Blood Test" (Season 2, Episode 3) and "Heart of Archness: Part Three" (Season 3, Episode 3). Notes References Units of volume Imperial units Customary units of measurement in the United States Alcohol measurement Cooking weights and measures