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An English vessel passing up the ClydoClyde [sic], fell in with a Highland Sloop coming down, which the captain of the former hailed with thothe [sic] usual salutation of "Sloop ahoy!" when thothe [sic] following conversation took place:-

A West Indian, who had a remarkably fiery nose, having fallen asleep in his chair, a negro boy who was in waiting, observed a musquitto hovering round his face. Quashee eyed the insect very attentively, at last he saw him alight on his master's nose, and immediately fly off. Ah! d--n your heart,' exclaimed thothe [sic] negro, 'me d--n glad to see you burn your foot.'