Jamaican Song and Story Part 46

=confusion=, quarrel, which was to be made the pretext for killing Tiger.

=wh fe do=, what to do? what is to be done? To this question the implied answer is "Nothing." So the phrase means:--"It can't be helped."

XLV. THE OLD LADY AND THE JAR.

A old lady have two son, one name Dory Dunn an' one name Tumpa Toe, an' Tumpa Toe an' Dory Dunn is a hunter-man.

Well, they give them mumma enough things an' say:--"Mumma, I am going a wood, don' interfere with that Jar in my room."

When them gone old lady say:--"I wonder what my son have in that Jar say me no fe touch."

Old lady go an' shub him hand inside in the Jar.

The Jar hold old lady.

Old Lady say:--

[Music:

Tumpa Toe, Lord!

Dory Dunn oh, Lord!]

An' the Jar say:--

[Music:

Mumma longubelo, tum tullalullalum tum.]

An' the Jar fire him from the room to the hall.

An' when him reach to the hall him say:--

"Tumpa Toe, Lord!

Dory Dunn oh, Lord!"

Jar say:--

"Mumma longubelo Tum tullalullalum tum."

An' all this time the Jar holding him by the hand an' can't let him go.

An' the Jar t'row him outside a door.

When him get out a door old lady say:--

"Tumpa Toe, Lord!

Dory Dunn oh, Lord!"

Jar say:--

"Mumma longubelo Tum tullalullalum tum."

Jar hold him 'till.

Jar fire him to seaside now.

An' he got one daughter a seaside.

The daughter say:--

[Music:

Do my Jar, Do my Jar, will you save, will you save my mother life!]

Jar say:--

[Music:

Old lady touch me, old lady touch me, you never will see him no more.]

The daughter say:--

[Music:

Do my Jar, Do my Jar!

I will give you some silver fe save my mother life.]

Jar say:--

[Music:

No, my gal, No, my gal, I got silver already; You never will see him no more.]

The Jar fire him in a sea.

_Jack Mantora me no choose none._

NOTES.

=Tumpa=, stump. A man who has lost his arm is called a tumpa-hand man.

=enough things=, plenty of things to eat.