SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES.
46. Why Tumble-bug Rolls in the Dung. [[Story]]
In Seidel’s story of the “Miracle of the Sidi” (Geschichten und Lieder der Afrikaner, 105), the devil dares the Sidi to marry a slave to a princess. The father of the princess has set to her wooers the supposedly impossible task of filling a bag with hyacinths out [[290]]of hyacinth season. The Sidi fills the bag with stones and bids the slave empty it out before the king, when the stones are by miracle turned into hyacinths.
48. Why Dog is always Looking. [[Story]]
A Jamaica negro proverb runs, “Darg say befo’ him plant yam fe look like masquita’ foot, him satisfy fe tun beggar.” See Cundall’s collection (Kingston, 1910), 211.
56. Rat’s Wedding. [[Story]]
It is not the wooden foot-bridge but any drain beside the road—the gutter—which Jamaicans call a ‘water table.’
66. Simon Tootoos. [[Story]]
For the music of these songs see Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 39 (1924): 482.
97. Leap, Timber, Leap. [[Story]]
An old man over eighty who was present at the recital of this story remembered hearing it when he was a little boy. Hauling lumber was in old days accompanied by song. The story turns upon a theme common in American Indian hero cycles, that of a trickster’s claim to magical powers which he does not possess. [[291]]