“Money has no blood relations.”--There is no friendship in
business.--[_Mauritius._]
171. * La-tché chatte poussé avec temps. (La queue du chat pousse avec
le temps.)
“The cat’s tail takes time to grow.”--[_Louisiana._]
172. Lepé dit aimé ous pendant li ronge doighte ous. (La lépre dit
qu’elle vous aime pendant qu’elle vous ronge les doigts.)
“The leprosy says it loves you, while it is eating your
fingers.”--[_Hayti._]
173. L’hére coq çanté, li bon pour marié. (Quand le coq chante, il est
bon à marier.)
“When the cock begins to crow, he is old enough to get
married.”--[_Mauritius._]
174. Lhére lamontagne bourlé, tout dimounde coné; lhére léquére bourlé,
qui coné? (Quand la montagne brûle, tout le monde le sait; quand le cœur
brûle, qui le sait?)
“When the mountain burns, everybody knows it; when the heart burns,
who knows it?”--[_Mauritius._]
175. Li allé l’ecole cabritt, li ritouné mouton. (Il est allé à l’école
[comme un] cabri; il est revenu mouton.)
“He went to school a kid, and came back a sheep.”[67]--[_Martinique._]
[67] The allusion to the overgrown and shy schoolboy, who has lost the
mischievous playfulness of his childhood, is easily recognizable.
Creole planters of the Antilles generally sent their sons to Europe to
be educated.