Vassel Edwards, Retirement, Cock-pit country.
There was a man at slave time had a wife, and the wife kept two other
men. The husband of that wife was working out. One night, one came
first and then the house-master came home. And they had a big jar
called a pannier-jar, and the wife took the man and put him into the
pannier-jar. Afterward the other man came in, and when he saw the
house-master was frightened and he told the house-master he had come to
borrow the pannier-jar. The house-master told him he could take it, and
the woman helped him up with the pannier-jar. And when he got part of
the way, he said, “Poor me bwoy! if it wasn’t for this pannier-jar, I
would be dead tonight!” The other man in the pannier-jar said, “Brar,
same meself!” And he got frightened and heaved down the pannier-jar,
mashed it up and killed the man in there.