{"collection":"African","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/afr/jas/jas064.htm","path":"afr/jas/jas064.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/afr/jas/jas064.htm","text":"Simeon Falconer, Santa Cruz Mountains.\nA man owe another one five pounds, and the other called in and asked the son who was at home, \"Where is your father?\"--\"Me father gone to break a new fence to mend a rotten one.\"--\"Where is your mother?\"--\"Me mother gone to the market to sell sweet to buy sweet.\"--\"Where is your older brother?\"--\"Gone to sea to catch what in catching will kill and what him don' catch will carry home alive.\"--\"Where is your sister?\"--\"Me sister in the house weeping over what she was, rejoicing about last year.\"--\"What are you doing?\"--\"Taking hot bricks out\n{p. 70}\nof oven.\"--\"Now, me good boy, you give me some hard puzzle. If you tell me the meaning I'll give you five pounds.\"--\"When I tell you me father gone to break a new fence to mend an old one, mean to say me father owe you five pound and gone to borrow five pound to pay you. When I tell you me mother gone to the market to sell sweet to buy sweet, gone to sell honey to buy sugar. When I said me brother gone to the sea to catch what in catching he kill and what him don' catch him bring home alive, I mean to say he goes to bed and he will catch the lice from his head and kill them; what he don' catch he mus' carry back in the head. When I said me sister was in the house weeping over what she was rejoicing over last year, she was rejoicing last year in getting her baby; she is weeping over it now because it is dying. When I tell you I'm taking hot bricks out of oven, I am pulling chiggers out of me feet.\"--\"Now all your puzzles are put through, you are worthy of the five pounds.\"--\"Please settle me father's debt, then.\" So he make a receipt and give his father five pounds.","title":"64. Settling the Father's Debt.","type":"page"}