No mo’ head mustn’t lef’ to-day.”
An’ de whole of dem start to ’cratch his head, ’cratch it until he dead.
66. Simon Tootoos. [[Note]]
Thomas White, Maroon Town, Cock-pit country.
Der was once a woman dat have a child. Him name was Simon Tootoos. De mudder him was a church woman, an’ him used to send de boy to church; and after, de mudder come an’ [[72]]die. An’ when de mudder die, he take de world upon his head. And Simon Tootoos mek colbon[1] and set it on Sunday day, and he go to wood on Sunday to go and search his colbon. And when he go to catch him bird, he catch a snake in de colbon. When he go to raise up de colbon an’ fin’ it was a snake, him leave it. An de snake answer to him,
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Come take me up, Come take me up, Simon Tootoos, lennon boy. Come take me up, oh, lennon boy, Too na too.