{"collection":"African","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/afr/jas/jas139.htm","path":"afr/jas/jas139.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/afr/jas/jas139.htm","text":"Richard Roe, Maroon Town, Cock-pit country.\nThere's a boy once, mother got only the one boy an' 'he love him so much that 'he give him a flute. So one day they go to far groun' an' coming back the boy leave the flute at the groun'. When he catch half-way, he remember it an' he tell him papa. Papa say to go back for it, but he mus' be careful not to blow it coming back because he got a lot of wil' beasts to pass. So as he come home he begin to blow,[1]\n Min-nie, Min-nie, wa-yo da Lim-ba,\n Min-nie, Min nie wa-yo da Lim-ba.\n Min-nie, Min-nie wa-yo da Lim-ba,\n Min-nie, Min-nie wa-yo da Lim-ba.\nWild beast rush out, say, \"Who's dat blowing de pipe, sah?\"--\"Oh, no, not me blowing!\" An' go 'way, blow again. Wil' beast rush out. \"Ha! you?\" \"No, grandpapa, not me blowing!\"--\"Den who blowing?\"--\"He gone on befo', massa; not me blowing!\"--\"Blow, let me see.\"--\"Flee flitty flee, flee flitty flee.\"\nWil' beast go away. He commence the right tune now,\n\"Minnie\u00a0Minnie, wa-yo da lim-ba, \n Minnie\u00a0Minnie, wa-yo da lim-ba,\n Minnie\u00a0Minnie, wa-yo da lim-ba.\"\n(Wild beast rush out, catch him, compel him to play.)\n\"Ah, I catch you now, sah! Play de tune now, sah I blow, sah!\"\nThen he began to blow the right tune, both dance. Different\n[1. The song was sung by Alfred Williams.]\n{p. 170}\nwil' beats--Tiger, Asoonah, all the wil' beasts come out an' dance. An' the father get frightened, come shoot all the wild beasts, all drop save him boy. An' flog the boy.","title":"139. The Fifer.","type":"page"}