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Once a man was travelling in a dray packed with sugar. The molasses off

the sugar was trailing underneath the dray. Two duppies came up and was

sucking the molasses, an’ say, “After the molasses so sweet, how is the

sugar?” The drayman happened to hear it, wheeled his whip in the air

an’ give the duppy a good lick. Duppies ran off, crying, “Me dead one

time, me dead one time, me can’t dead two time!”

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