{"collection":"African","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/afr/jas/jas134.htm","path":"afr/jas/jas134.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/afr/jas/jas134.htm","text":"Vassel Edwards, Retirement, Cock-pit country.\nThere was a man at slave time had a wife, and the wife kept two other men. The husband of that wife was working out. One night, one came first and then the house-master came home. And they had a big jar called a pannier-jar, and the wife took the man and put him into the pannier-jar. Afterward the other man came\n{p. 164}\nin, and when he saw the house-master was frightened and he told the house-master he had come to borrow the pannier-jar. The house-master told him he could take it, and the woman helped him tip with the pannier-jar. And when he got part of the way, he said, \"Poor me bwoy! if it wasn't for this pannier-jar, I would be dead tonight!\" The other man in the pannier-jar said, \"Brar, same meself!\" And he got frightened and heaved down the pannier-jar, mashed it up and killed the man in there.","title":"134. The Pannier-jar.","type":"page"}