Simeon Falconer, Santa Cruz Mountains.
Tiger planting corn, and birds and everyt’ing destroying de corn, so
him get Dove to help him fe watch who is destroying de corn. So after
dey sit up de whole night fo’ to watch de corn, next day Tiger him go
sleep. Bredder Dove go back in de day now and destroy de corn. So de
nex’ day, Tiger went in de day and dodge in de ground. Bredder Dove
have a gang, an’ Tiger were slap him on de ears and he sing out, “Me
ears! me ears! me ears!” An’ from dat day to dis de dove singing, “Me
ears!”