71. Pea-fowl as Messenger. [[Note]]
a. John Studee.
Matilda Hall, Maroon Town.
The husband and wife married people, and the husband a great gambler, never at home with the wife; until the wife going to have a baby, and the ninth month come now. So they send for the mid-wife; so when the mid-wife come, there is no husband in. She said she want some one to go call the husband, name of him is John Studee. So she call for all the thing they have in the yard. She call for a fowl, a cock, and say, “What will you say to call the husband?” The cock crew,
“Ko ku ru ku-u-u!”
“You won’t do.”