Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1909 — Perfectly Lucid. [ARTICLE]

Perfectly Lucid.

A New Yorker who paid a visit last summer to a Kentucky planter had his slumbers disturbed by mosquitoes. When he mentioned this to his host the latter declared that they never annoyed him. The next day he commented upon this fact to the colonel’s negro valet, who accounted for the phenomenon in this way: "De furst part ob de night de kunnel am so drunk dat he don’ feel de skeeters, an’ de las* part ob de night de Skeeters am so drunk dat dey don’t bodder de kunnel.”