The Sunday after the wedding is 'turn t'anks (return thanks). The married couple and their friends get all the beasts, i.e. horses and mules, they can muster, and ride to church dressed in their best. The bride and bridegroom, attended by the godfather and godmother, sit in "couple bench," the rest of the party going to their own pews. After service the whole cavalcade gallops as hard as it can, regardless of the precipices which skirt all Jamaica mountain paths, up hill and down hill to the husband's yard. There wine is provided, and the second cake is cut and eaten. Dinner follows at three, and then [Sally Water] is again played until midnight, when dancing recommences and goes on till four or five o'clock on Monday afternoon. This is the end of the festivities, which sometimes cost twenty pounds or more.
provide for him, prepared himself.
door mouth includes not only the opening, but also the whole space just outside the door.
XXV. ANNANCY, MONKEY AND TIGER.
One day Annancy an' Tiger get in a rum-shop, drink an' drink, an' then Monkey commence to boast. Monkey was a great boaster.
Annancy say:—"You boast well; I wonder if you have sense as how you boast."
Monkey say:—"Get 'way you foolish fellah you, can come an' ask me if me have sense. You go t'rough de whole world you never see a man again have the sense I have."
Annancy say:—"Bro'er Monkey, how many sense you have, tell me?"