—Cooking-pots.
51. My father sent for a ship-load of men and everyone come with arm
akimbo. [88]
—Coffee-pots.
52. My father sent for a ship-load of soldiers and everyone come with
one eye.
—Needles.
a) Me fader hab a whole Guinea ship a nager; eb’ryone come wid one eye.
b) I hab a pen o’ sheep, but eb’ryone hab one eye.
53. My father have a piece of white yam that serve the whole world.
[89]
—Moon.
a) One piece a afoo (white) yam nyam, serve the whole worl’.
b) One piece of yellow yam serve the whole world.
c) Me fader hab a half side o’ bammie (cake of kasava meal) an’ him
share it fe de whole world.
54. Me fader hab a pepper-tree; eb’ry night all de pepper ripe, an
eb’ry morning you wouldn’t find one pepper an de tree. [90]
—Stars.
a) I go to bed and leave my pepper-tree full of peppers, and wake in
the morning, there isn’t one there.
b) Me fader got a rose-tree in him yard; eb’ry night he blow, an by
time de fe clean, eb’ry one gone.
c) Me fader hab a heap a white plate pon a blue table; wash de plate in
de evening an’ turn him down, an’ in de morning don’ see one.