{"collection":"African","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/afr/jas/jas066.htm","path":"afr/jas/jas066.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/afr/jas/jas066.htm","text":"Thomas White, Maroon Town, Cock-pit country.\nDer was once a woman dat have a child. Him name was Simon Tootoos. De mudder him was a church woman, an' him used to send de boy to church; and after, de mudder come an'\n{p. 72}\ndie. An' when de mudder die, he take de world upon his head. And Simon Tootoos mek colbon[1] and set it on Sunday day, and he go to wood on Sunday to go and search his colbon. And when he go to catch him bird, he catch a snake in de colbon. When he go to raise up de colbon an' fin' it was a snake, him leave it. An de snake answer to him,\n Come take me up, Come take me up, Si-mon Too-toos,\n len-non boy. Come take me up, ob, len-non boy, Too na too.\nIt was his dead mudder cause de snake to sing like dat. And when he go to leave--\n\"Come back you' colbon, come back you colbon.\n Simon Tootoos, lennon boy,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Come back you' colbon, O lennon boy!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Too na too!\"\nmake him come an' tek him up carry him come back to yard. And him put him down--\n\"Come 'tretch me out, come 'tretch me out,\n Simon Tootoos, lennon boy,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Come 'tretch me out, O lennon boy!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Too na too!\"\nAnd stretch him out and cut him neck.--\n\"Come wash your pot, come wash your pot,\n Simon Tootoos, lennon boy,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Come wash your pot,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0O lennon boy! Too na too!\"\nAnd wash de pot. And cut him up an' put in de pot, an' he set it on de fire, mak up him fire under him, and him start boiling. After it start boiling, it boil until it tell him to season in skelion[2]. When it boil, it tells, him to come down pot off de fire. So\n\"Come wash you' plate, come wash you' plate,\n Simon Tootoos, lennon boy,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Come wash you' plate, O lennon boy!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Too na too!\"\nHe wash de plate.\n[1. A trap.\n2. A cooking-pot.]\n{p. 73}\n\"Come clean you' knife, come clean you' knife,\n Simon Tootoos, lennon boy,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Come clean you' knife, O lennon boy!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Too na too!\"\nHe clean him knife.\n\"Come lay you' table, come lay you' table,\n Simon Tootoos, lennon boy!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Come lay you' table, O lennon boy!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Too na too!\"\nHe lay him table. An' say,\n\"Come pick me out, come pick me out,\n Simon Tootoos, lennon boy,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Come pick me out, O lennon boy!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Too na too!\"\nAnd pick him out.\n\"Come lay me on table, come lay me on table,\n Simon Tootoos, lennon boy,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Come lay me on table, O lennon boy!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Too na too!\"\nPut him on table.\n\"Come draw you' chair, come draw you' chair,\n Simon Tootoos, lennon boy,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Come draw you' chair, O lennon boy!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Too na too!\"\nHe draw him chair.\n\"Come eat me now, come eat me now,\n Simon Tootoos, lennon boy!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Come eat me now, O lennon boy!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Too na too!\"\nHe eat him dead mother now.\n\"Come call you' grave-digger, come call you' grave-digger,\n Simon Tootoos, lennon boy,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Come call you' grave-digger, O lennon boy!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Too na too!\n\"Come call you carpenter, come call you' carpenter,\n Simon Tootoos, lennon boy,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Come call you' carpenter, O lennon boy!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Too na too!\"\nAs him eating done--\n\"Come say you' prayer, come say you' prayer,\n Simon Tootoos, lennon boy,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Come say you' prayer, O lennon boy!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Too na too!\n{p. 74}\n\"Come go to you' bed, come go to you' bed,\n Simon Tootoos, lennon boy,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Come go to you' bed, O lennon boy!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Too na too!\"\nAfter him go to him bed, him mudder come out of him belly; an' dat was de las' of Simon Tootoos.","title":"66. Simon Tootoos.","type":"page"}