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ment, under an idea that twelve or eighteen months labor was 

 sufficient to pay the first cost. It is an absolute fact, that the 

 comfort and health of the negroes was never much considered, 

 until their value, like that of a blood horse when put in com- 

 petition with a cart horse, entitled them to better treatment, 

 for fear they should die, as the loss would then be so much 

 the greater. 



Specimen of the negro English, or talkee-talkee, alluded to at p. 341, 

 which is spoken by the Creole ladies in preference to any other dialect. 



Da wan tieri somma - That is a free person 



No mekie bawli bawli - Don't make any noise 



Den de mekie too mooso bawli bawli They make too much noise 



Mekie hesie - - Make haste 



Loeke boe?i - - - Take care, or look good 



Tantiere - - - Stand still 



Loeke deeja _ - . Look here 



Piekienmoro - - - A little more 



Onofo - - - Enough 



Oe somma die da pree ? - Who's there ? 



Matie - - - A friend 



Da mie - •• - , It's me 



Da massa - - It's a gentleman 



Da misse - - It's a lady. 



FINIS. 



Norwich Printed by Sccveason and Matcbett. 



