nippet

Updated: May 6, 2025

"The first year o' Latin was enough for me. He juist nippet up his verbs. Casar could na keep him going; he wes into Virgil afore he wes eleven, and the Latin prose, man, as sure as a'm living, it tasted o' Cicero frae the beginning." Whinnie wagged his head in amazement.

Ian Maclaren - Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush