{"collection":"African","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/afr/jas/jas069.htm","path":"afr/jas/jas069.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/afr/jas/jas069.htm","text":"a. Moses Hendricks, Mandeville.\nThere was an old woman, a witch, but she was very wealthy. She lived quite to herself. Plenty of stock-horses, cows, sheep, mules, each kind kept by itself in a separate pasture. The old lady's name was Grandy Beard-o, but nobody knew that name. She wanted a person to sup with her. She came across a little girl one day. The took that girl home. After she prepared her meal, she called the girl and asked her if she knew her name. The girl said, \"No, ma'am.\" She said to the girl, \"Unless you tell me my name, I will not give you anything to eat.\"\nShe started out the girl to go and fetch some water. The girl had to go through all the pastures to get where the water was--mules to themselves, cows to themselves, horses to themselves, sheep to themselves. She went along crying, being hungry. So she got into cow-pasture--that was first pasture. The cow said to her, \"What's the matter with you, me baby?\"\nThe girl said, \"The old lady will not give me anything to eat except me can tell her her name!\" Cow was afraid to tell her.\nFrom there she went into mule pasture, crying all the same. Mule said, \"What's the matter, me baby?\"\nThe girl said, \"The old lady will not give me anything to eat, except me can tell her her name!\" Mule wouldn't tell her.\nShe got into horse pasture, crying all the way. Horse said, \"What's the matter, me baby?'\n\"Old lady in there won't give me anything to eat except me can tell her her name!\" Horse wouldn't tell her.\nFrom there she went into bull pasture, still crying. Bull said, \"What's the matter, me baby?\"\n\"Old lady won't give me anything to eat except me can tell her her name!\"\nBull says, \"Cho! when you go home, tell her her name Grandy Beard-o.\" Bull was a mighty man; he didn't care!\nThe girl was so glad, hastened home so as to get something to eat. Old lady said, \"You can tell me my name make me give you something to eat?\"\nThe girl said, \"Your name Grandy Beard-o, ma'am.\"\nOld lady got so indignant! She gave the girl a good feed and after that she started to find who told the girl, Went into cow pasture.\n\"You cow, you cow, you cow,\n Why you tell the girl\n Me name Grand Beard-o?\"\n{p. 78}\nCow said,\n\"A ring ding\u00a0ding, mamma, ring ding\u00a0ding;\n A ring ding\u00a0ding, mamma, ring ding\u00a0ding;\n No me tell.\"\nShe jump into horse pasture now.--\n\"You also horse tell the girl\n Me name Grandy Beard-o?\"\nHorse said,\n\"A ring ding\u00a0ding, mamma, ring ding\u00a0ding;\n A ring ding\u00a0ding, mamma, ring ding\u00a0ding;\n No me tell him.\"\nShe got into bull pasture now.--\n\"You bull, you bull, you bull,\n Why you tell the girl\n Me name Grandy Beard-o?\"\nBull said,\n\"A ring ding\u00a0ding, mamma, ring ding\u00a0ding;\n A ring ding, ding, mamma, ring ding\u00a0ding;\n Damme, me tell 'm!\"\nThe old lady gripped the bull and tossed him in the air. The bull dropped; nothing happened. The bull tossed her in the air now, and she dropped; one leg broken, She tossed the bull again; the bull came down unhurt. The bull tossed her up again; she came down, another leg was broken.\nShe tossed the bull; nothing happened. The bull tossed her; she came down, one arm broken. She tossed the bull again; the bull came down unhurt. The bull tossed her again; she came down, the other arm was broken.\nShe tossed the bull again; the bull came down unhurt. The last toss the bull made, her neck broke. That was the end of her. The girl became mistress of all she possessed, and that is why the land goes from hand to hand in legacy up to to-day.\nJack man dory!\nb. Julia Gentle, Malvern, Santa Cruz Mountains.\nA very bad woman have only one daughter an' say, 'Go to the river for water an' when you come back, if you cannot tell my name I will destroy you,\" When him goin' fe water see Crab. An' Crab axin' where him go. An' say, \"Grandy sen' me go a river fe water an' say when me come back, if me cannot tell him name, her will kill me.\" The Crab tell him say, 'When you go, tell her dat her name Grandy Do-an-do.\"\n{p. 79}\nSo when she come back, she forget the name. An' she say mus, kill him, so dash away the water an' send him back. Then when she go back, the Crab say, \"Sing it all the way!\" Then when the girl go back she sing,\n\"You name Grandy- do-an-do.\n You name Grandy-do-an-do.\"\nThen the woman mad when she hear it an' she travel. An' she meet Cow, an' say,\n\"You Cow, a you tell de girl a name Grandy Do-an-do?\"\nCow say,\n\"No, no me tell him so you name Grandy Do-an-do!\"\nShe travel an' she meet Sheep, an' say,\n\"You Sheep, a you tell de girl a name Grandy Do-an-do?\"\nSheep say,\nMeet Horse, say,\n\"You Horse, a you tell de girl me name Grandy Do-an-do?\"\nHorse say,\nMeet Duck, say,\n\"You Duck, a you tell de girl a name Grandy Do-an-do?\"\nDuck say,\nMeet Crab, say,\n\"You Crab, a you tell de girl a name Grandy Do-an-do?\"\nCrab say,\n\"Yes, a me tell him a you name Grandy Do-an-do!\"\nAn' tak de machete an' chop after de Crab, an' Crab sink in de hole an' stay in de hole till now.","title":"69. Grandy-Do-an'-Do.","type":"page"}