The mother refuse from do so, an' lef' an gone home, tell the father what happen with Leah in the bush.
An' puppa say:—"What make you lef' me daughter a bush? Go back for him to-night."
Mamma say:—"No danger wi' me daughter, me wi' carry him dinner four o'clock, lef' him come back."
Next day Tiger 'tart to Blacksmit' fe run iron down him t'roat back. Blacksmit' get vex, tell him he going to lick him down with the iron, for his ears hard.
Tiger said:—"Do Bro'er Blacksmit', me yerry all whé you tell me this time."
An' Blacksmit' put the iron two hour a fire an' shub him down Tiger t'roat. Tiger can't take him ground, iron too hot.
When he done with him he tell him to sing make him hear, an' beg him anything that him see in the way must make him yeye pass it.
An' Tiger say:—"Yes, so me going do."
Him shut him yeye now, take the whole a road for himself, say:—"Me boy never would a nyam nothing more a pass: sweet, sweet meat like a that so a bush me could a lef' ahm so?"
He was very hurry to the house, an' just before twelve o'clock he commence to sing, an' this time his voice sound well.