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Yung-kyum-pyung Eggie-Law Marg'ret-Powell-Alone. |
An' the King t'row himself off a him t'rone an' lie there 'tiff dead.
Then Annancy go up an' take the t'rone, an' marry the youngest daughter an' a reign.
Annancy is the wickedest King ever reign. Sometime him dere, sometime him gone run 'pon him rope an tief cow fe him wife.
Jack Mantora me no choose none.
NOTES.
Me, me I mus' have, etc., I will find out those girls' names. Anybody else would have said:—"Me mus' have fe find them ya (those here) gal name," but Annancy likes to add a few more syllables. His speech is Bungo talk. The Jamaican looks down on the Bungo (rhymes with Mungo) who "no 'peak good English."
abbly no me, except me.
go under the house. It is no absurdity to the narrator's mind to picture the King's house on the pattern of his own. This is a two-roomed hut, consisting of the hall or dining-room and a bedroom. It is floored with inch-thick cedar boards roughly cut and planed, so that they never lie very close. An air space is left underneath, and anybody who creeps under the hut can hear all that goes on above.