CLXXIII

Here, on the contrary, is something typically Jamaican:—

5th Figure.

[Listen] [XML]

Oh! me wouldn' bawl at all,
Oh! me wouldn' bawl at all,
Oh! me wouldn' bawl at all,
For the policeman come tell a lie 'pon me.

A boy who has been arrested, conscious of his innocence, does not go through the usual pantomime of shrieks and tears. The policeman (observe the accent on the word) told a lie about me, he says.