It is not the wooden foot-bridge but any drain beside the road—the gutter—which Jamaicans call a ‘water table.’
66. Simon Tootoos. [[Story]]
For the music of these songs see Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 39 (1924): 482.
97. Leap, Timber, Leap. [[Story]]
An old man over eighty who was present at the recital of this story remembered hearing it when he was a little boy. Hauling lumber was in old days accompanied by song. The story turns upon a theme common in American Indian hero cycles, that of a trickster’s claim to magical powers which he does not possess. [[291]]
INDEX TO INFORMANTS.
1. Alexander, Emily, aged 15. She came to my room in the evening after her work was done at the hotel and recited to me more than twenty stories which she had from her father, who was a native of Mandeville, and with which she was in the habit of entertaining the other young people employed at the hotel.