212 CAMPS IN THE CARIBBEES. 
‘Like you life you lub me?’ ‘Yes.’ Well, he say, 
‘I try you: Ef you lub me, so; ef you no lub me an’ 
no mine me, I kill you dead to-day.’ So he go to ketch 
some mouse — how he was to do dat I do’ know; but 
he ketch um mice an’ put him under calbash on de 
groun’. Den he call um sweetheart an’ say, ‘I go to 
Jeabe you now. You see dat calbash! Under dat cal- 
bash is my life, my lub. Ef you lif? um up he make 
um go; ef you lub me, you no lif? um up.’ So he go 
‘way. When he gone, she walk all ’bout, she cannot 
to stay still; she mus’ to see under de calbash; so she 
lif?um up. Shi! out pop de mice an’ runned away 
with heself. 
“ When time come fo’ dinnah, her lubah come back 
’gin. She set down sad, sad, sad; no tell him howdy. 
He say, ‘ What de mattah?’ She no speak. He say, 
‘ Kaima, myiga’ (go and eat). She no go. He say, 
‘ Kaima, goora’ (go and drink). She no go. Sheno 
make talk, but take de big calbash, and go to de 
ribah fo’ watah. He say, ‘Ah, my lub is out ob de 
calbash.’ He lif? um up; no mice no pop out agin. 
Den he go to de ribah—bam! when she lif’ up de 
watah, he mash he head with stone. 
“When Carib court he sweetheart he must not to 
see her too often, only but once a month; an’ den 
when he courtin’ he must to sweep all de yard clean, 
clean, clean, -by first cockcrow; ef he to be see after 
dat he cannot court dat girl no mo’. Ef he ketch fish 
he must to bring um to her father’s house; an’ he no 
see he sweetheart, only hes father; and he no see hes 
mother-law’tall, [great deprivation.] When he to get 
married, he must go to de wood an’ cut down tall 
gommier an’ make six-oar boat.” 
