"He answer um: 'I no know, no ax me not'ing.'
"Den de Watch-pot man say: 'Well, goodbye.'
"Greedy answer um, say: 'Ef yo' lek, yo' no go; ef yo' lek yo' go', I no get bizzen deh.'
"So Watch-pot take all he t'ing, he go pong!
"Now dem two pusson deh, which one pass fo' cunnie?"
The delight of the men over the narrative of Watch-pot and Greedy was so genuine and keen, that Sobah quite readily consented to tell another story. While trying to think of something appropriate, his eye fell upon an axe that was leaning against a post of the farm-house. The axe itself was a novelty in that part of the country, a result of one of Sobah's trips to the coast.
"Yo' see dah axe yandah?" he asked, pointing to the article in question. "Yo' no know which side he come out? Well, I tell yo' 'bout um."
The Origin of the Axe.