CLXXIV

Thoroughly Jamaican too, as to its words at least, is:—

Jig.

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You take junka 'tick fe go lick maugre dog,
You take junka 'tick fe go lick maugre dog;
When maugre dog dead a whé you a go do?
Whé you a go do, Birdie?
Whé you a go do?

This is a remonstrance addressed by a mother to her daughter who has taken up a short stick to beat her. "It is true," she says, "that I am but a lean dog, but when the lean dog is dead what are you going to do?" (Maugre, French maigre, pronounced mahgher.)