He say:—"Me no a tie you fe see if you heavy?"
Trapong say to Brother Annancy:—"Me heavy?"
Annancy say:—"You heavy oh! You light oh! You heavy enough fe me wife pot." An' for all the bahl Trapong a bahl he gone back to him house an' Annancy eat him.
Jack Mantora me no choose none.
NOTES.
height, in the height of, at the worst of.
Sea-mahmy, Mermaid.
feedin' tree. It was a duckanoo mango according to some accounts.
Annancy behaves just as he did with Candlefly and the eggs.
The connecting wells of this story, which take the place of the ands and sos of other narrators are said with a little upward turn of the voice.