A REGULAR NIPPER.
Two Scotch sugar planters in Demerara were once boasting of their indifference to the bites of mosquitoes. The dispute got so warm that Mac. bet Allister that he was the better man. They agreed to lie down in the verandah in the scantiest of clothing. Smoking and drinking were allowed, but the first man who complained was to lose a case of whisky. For a long time each endured the attack of the mosquitoes, but at last Allister could endure it no longer, and was turning round about to give in, when he noticed that Mac..’s back was towards him. Allister was smoking a cigar, and carefully removing the ash, he applied the end to Mac. s back.
* Eh, man yelled Mac., ‘ that was a gallinipper.’ ‘ Ye’ll send me that case of whisky in the morning,' was Allister’s reply, as he hastily pnt on the remainder of his clothes.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 7, 13 February 1892, Page 168
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152A REGULAR NIPPER. New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 7, 13 February 1892, Page 168
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