nippers

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/59793

nipper1 n "Webuck-tam dog-ouk, ouk-clear out, I tell you! Susan! What be doon? Where's the dish-cloth? No, that beant he, blockhead. Mercy! who ever saw the flies and nippers so bad as they! You dar, shet that door-shet it. Hist! abide still, child-knock off, I tell ye, or I'll fix that bawling. Peruik! now who's had finger in that pot? Oh my! Etching laid siege one morning with his photo- graphic appartus, and captured the whole fam- ily. They were properly grouped before the house, and the necessity of remaining perfectly quiet was strictly enjoined; but the mosquitoes bit so savagely that few would have dared the experiment of sitting long enough for a portrait. But the paternal voice imperiously reiterated the artist's caution: "Abide still,now. Move not a finger. Never mind they-let 'em bite." Then he chose his own attitude, and he and PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit W. J. KIRWIN JAN 1978 JH JAN 1978 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 1 Used I