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.