Pag^e Forty 



A little boy visitiiifi the Zoo asked an attendant if the zebras were 

 convict horses. 



An Mthnoloiiical Meetin<2: 



'Twas all on a Monday evening 



As the shades began to fall. 

 That I followed the wise ethnological guys 



To the ^^'est Assembly Hall. 



The chairman, so suave and tactful 



Was about to introduce 

 The first to be of the speakers three — 



They were ladies all, forsooth. 



They were graded by size, I take it — 



Or could it have been by age? 

 However that be, 'twas the tallest, you see, 



A\'ho was first to mount the stage. 



She made some astonishing statements. 



While I sat there still as a mouse, 

 "Bout Jamaicans who dance in red and white pant.« 



And wear for a headdress a house! 



The musicians, she said, who are present 



To usher the dancers in. 

 Produce a fine tone from a hor.se"s jawbone 



Which they use for a violin. 



Then uj) ro.se the second sj)eaker, 



To tell how tho.se p,eople can croon, 

 And warble and trill with consummate skill. 



Though they cannot remember the tune. 



But the way they can drum is the greatest 



Of all their musical feats — 

 A\'ith a rub-a-dul)-dub and a rub-dub-dub 



They i^lay thirty-two different beats. 



