Julia Gentle, Santa Cruz Mountains.
A boy live with a very rich gentleman, and he have no children and he
believe that when he die, the boy get all the fortune; so he want to
kill the boy. And he throw out a barrel of rice and say boy must pick
up every grain before he come back. And dead mother come and pick up
every grain.
And when he come and see the boy pick up all the rice, say, “You mean
to get all me fortune!” He tell the boy must go to the headman town and
carry away the duppy-man one bell. An the dead mother go with the boy
and the mother tell the boy what time the duppy lie down he must mash
them hard. And he go take the bell out the middle of the town where the
duppy is, and must run to four cross-roads before he come home with the
bell. Then all the duppy scatter; one go one cross-road and one
another, and the boy run home to massa with the bell.
Then after he carry the bell come home, the man say, “I don’ know what
to do! I believe you going to get me fortune!” And him tak one sword,
the sharpest sword, and give the boy the dull sword and say, “We now
play sword!” And the boy take the dull sword and kill the man and get
all the fortune.