a) Me fader hab a whole Guinea ship a nager; eb’ryone come wid one eye.
b) I hab a pen o’ sheep, but eb’ryone hab one eye.
53. My father have a piece of white yam that serve the whole world.[15]
—Moon.
a) One piece a afoo (white) yam nyam, serve the whole worl’.
b) One piece of yellow yam serve the whole world.
c) Me fader hab a half side o’ bammie (cake of kasava meal) an’ him share it fe de whole world. [[189]]
54. Me fader hab a pepper-tree; eb’ry night all de pepper ripe, an eb’ry morning you wouldn’t find one pepper an de tree.[16]
—Stars.
a) I go to bed and leave my pepper-tree full of peppers, and wake in the morning, there isn’t one there.