LXXIV

LXXIII.

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Cheer me oh!
Cheer me oh!
Cheer me oh!
My will fight fe you.

In imitating animals the negro is clever. He moos like a cow, grunts like a pig, whinnies like a horse, besides the minor accomplishments of miauling and barking. Even trammelled by music this cock's crow is good:—

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Me cock a crow coocoorico,
before day him a crow coocoorico,
him a crow fe me wake coocoorico.

(Sound the i short as in rich.)