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Fe me Cawly Cawly oh! If no hunter-man no come here oh! Yalla Snake will swallow me. |
Snake, fe all him mout' full, get to say:—"Me will swallow you till you mumma no fin' piece of you bone."
The brother come close to the place, climb upon the stone.
They hear the voice plainer, come down off the stone an' see that Snake leave but the head of their sister.
They go down on Snake an' kill him an' split him an' take out their sister an' carry her home.
From that day she never marry again for she feel the hand of marry.
So everybody that pick too much will come off the same way.
Jack Mantora me no choose none.
NOTES.
Snake, pronounced in two syllables, Se-nake with the exact value of vowels in the French words ce n'est que, and of course stopping at the k sound of the q.