4. Tiger’s Sheep-skin Suit. [[Note]]
George Parkes, Mandeville.
Anansi was a head-man for a man by the name of Mr. Mighty, who employed Anansi for the purpose of minding some sheep. The sheep numbered about two thousand. And from the first day Anansi took over the sheep, the man began to miss one. An’ he steal them until he leave only one. Well, Mr. Mighty would like to find out how the sheep go. He say to Anansi he would give his best daughter and two hundred pound to find out how the sheep go.
Anansi say the best way to find it out is to make a ball. Anansi have a friend name of Tiger, call him ‘Brar Tiger’. He went to Tiger an’ tell him Mr. Mighty promise to give his daughter [[7]]an’ two hundred pound to whomsoever tell how the sheep go. Anansi now is a fiddler, an’ he say that he will play the fiddle an’ Tiger play the tambourine, but before he go to the ball he will give Tiger a sheepskin coat, sheepskin trousers, a sheepskin cap, a sheepskin boot; an’ when him, Tiger, hear him play,
“Mister Mighty loss him sheep,
It stan’ lik’ a Tiger t’iefee,”
him, Tiger, mustn’t think him the same one; it’s one clear out the country. And he is to play his tambourine, say,
“Fe tre-ew, bredder, fe tre-ew,
It ’tan lik’ a it mak me clo’es.”