Other bars of this air have an inclination to 2/4 time besides those indicated.

It will be observed that repeat marks have only been put to the first sing. It was not considered necessary to continue them. The various "turnings" of the tunes may be put in any order. The negroes themselves never put them twice in the same sequence.


LXXXI.

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Minnie, Minnie, me los' me boar;
Minnie, Minnie, me los' me boar;
Minnie, Minnie, him a broke-foot boar;
Minnie, Minnie, me los' me boar;
Minnie, Minnie, and a blind-eye boar;
Minnie, Minnie, go find you boar, Minnie, Minnie.

"I have lost my boar, Minnie. He's a broken-legged boar and has got a blind eye," and so on through all the defects or excellences that a boar might, could, should or would have.