longubelo. The first syllable is pronounced as in English, and the rest of the vowels are Italian, the e being rather more narrowed, but never quite reaching to the sound of bale.
tum tullalullalum tum. Strong accent on the tull and clean neatly cut syllables. Italian vowels.
mumma. The u between Italian u and Italian o.
fire him, throws her. Yet not quite "throws," for the Jar never lets her hand go. Fire 'tone is the usual expression for throwing stones. The Jar fires her first from the bedroom to the living-room (hall), next from the hall to the yard, then from the yard to the seaside, and all the time it holds her by the hand.
XLVI. JOHN CROW AND FOWL-HAWK.
One day Fowl-hawk go to John Crow yard an' tell him that him fe come have a walk with me to a country for something promise there to me.
"One day I go out an' in my way I pass a river. As I come to the river I meet Fowl. Him ask me to help him up, an' the baby any time him born I must come for it. Well my dear sir, the baby born; an' when I go, Fowl say him never make a promise with me. Look you, sir, if you see the picny, nice fresh fe we mouth, an' a no the one, but him hab more. So you will get a good bag of fresh, but the country danger home."
John Crow say:—"Me yerry dat place hab bad name, me no want go."
Hawk say:—"You too fool, we a man! we'll get 'way, me son, if them want to catch we. When me go dé the first time me go slam in a Fowl yard. Me an' him stay a whole day a quarrel, an' me no dead. Come, me good friend, make we go."