--- title: Opening, part 4 — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · full text with trees · page 2 description: Opening, part 4, «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: XVI. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/4/page/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Negro myths from the Georgia coast, to…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/) / Opening, part 4 # Opening, part 4 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/4/) **2** XIX.[102](../../102/ "tree and pragmatics") BUH ELEPHANT AN BUH ROOSTER.[103](../../103/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Elephant, him bin know Buh Rooster berry well.[104](../../104/ "tree and pragmatics") Dem blan roam togerrur, an Buh Rooster blan wake Buh Elephant duh mornin, so eh kin hunt eh bittle befo de jew dry.[105](../../105/ "tree and pragmatics") Dem bin a talk togerrur one day, an Buh Elephant, him bet Buh Rooster say him kin eat longer ner him.[106](../../106/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Rooster, him tek de bet, an dem tun in nex mornin, wen de sun jis bin a git up, fuh see who guine win de bet.[107](../../107/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Elephant, him gedder leaf an grass, an eat an eat tel eh full an cant eat no mo.[108](../../108/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Rooster, him sarche de grass fuh seed an wurrum, an eh pick an eat.[109](../../109/ "tree and pragmatics") Wen Buh Elephant done full, an der tan onder de tree duh flop eh yez, eh see Buh Rooster, dist es spry, duh walk bout an der swaller seed an grasshopper an wurrum same luk eh dis biggin fuh eat.[110](../../110/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Elephant gib up.[111](../../111/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh fine eh yent de man wid de bigges belly wuh kin eat de longes.[112](../../112/ "tree and pragmatics") XX.[113](../../113/ "tree and pragmatics") DE PO MAN AN DE SNAKE.[114](../../114/ "tree and pragmatics") One po Man bin er mek eh libbin long split shingle an cut timber in de swamp.[115](../../115/ "tree and pragmatics") Him hab wife, but no chillun.[116](../../116/ "tree and pragmatics") Ebry day, from sunrise tel sundown, eh day in de swamp der cut.[117](../../117/ "tree and pragmatics") Try eh bes, eh scacely kin mek bread fuh eat.[118](../../118/ "tree and pragmatics") One berry big Snake--de farruh er all dem tarruh snake wuh lib in de swamp--notus de po man.[119](../../119/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh see how hard eh wuk an how little eh mek, and eh tek pity on um.[120](../../120/ "tree and pragmatics") One ebenin, dis befo de po man knock off wuk, dis snake crawl up ter de log way de man bin er chop, an eh say: “Budder, how you der mek out?”[121](../../121/ "tree and pragmatics") De man mek answer: “Me yent mek out wut.[122](../../122/ "tree and pragmatics") Me der wuk in dis swamp from sunrise tel dark, day een an day out, an try me bes, me scacely kin mek bittle nough fuh me an me wife fuh eat.”[123](../../123/ "tree and pragmatics") Den de snake, him say: “Me sorry fuh you, an me willin fuh help you.”[124](../../124/ "tree and pragmatics") De man tenk um, an ax um how eh guine help um.[125](../../125/ "tree and pragmatics") De snake say: “You got any chillun?”[126](../../126/ "tree and pragmatics") De man say: “No.” De snake quire: “You hab wife?”[127](../../127/ "tree and pragmatics") De man say: “Yes.”[128](../../128/ "tree and pragmatics") De snake say: “Kin you keep secret from you wife?”[129](../../129/ "tree and pragmatics") De man mek answer say eh kin.[130](../../130/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Snake tell um eh faid fuh truss um; but wen de man bague de snake berry hard fuh try um, de snake gree fuh do so.[131](../../131/ "tree and pragmatics") Den de snake tell um eh guine gen um some money nex day, but eh mussne tell eh wife way eh git de money.[132](../../132/ "tree and pragmatics") De man mek strong prommus, and so dem part.[133](../../133/ "tree and pragmatics") De nex day, jis befo de po man done task, de snake crawl up.[134](../../134/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh belly an eh mouf puff out.[135](../../135/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh spit two quart er silber money on de groun dist in front er de po man, an eh say: “You member wuh me bin tell you las ebenin?[136](../../136/ "tree and pragmatics") Well, yuh some money me fotch fuh help you.[137](../../137/ "tree and pragmatics") Tek um, but member ef you tell you wife way you git um, er who gen um ter you, eh yent guine do you no good, an you guine dead a po man.”[138](../../138/ "tree and pragmatics") De man so glad fuh git de money eh say: “Tenky, tenky, tenky, me budder; me neber guine tell nobody way me git all dis money.”[139](../../139/ "tree and pragmatics") Arter eh leff de swamp fuh gone home, de snake spicion say eh bin guine go back on eh prommus an tell eh wife: so eh mek up eh mine fuh foller um an see wuh happne.[140](../../140/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh bin dark wen eh retch de man house.[141](../../141/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh crawl up, an eh leddown dist onder de winder, way him kin yeddy all de wud wuh talk in de house.[142](../../142/ "tree and pragmatics") De man wife bin a tun roun an der cook supper.[143](../../143/ "tree and pragmatics") Arter him an eh husbun done eat, eh husbun say: “Me bin hab big luck ter-day: looker dis money.”[144](../../144/ "tree and pragmatics") Den eh pull out de silber and spread um on de table.[145](../../145/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh wife stonish.[146](../../146/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh wife glad, an eh say: “Tell me way you bin git all dis money.”[147](../../147/ "tree and pragmatics") De man say: “Fren gen um ter me.”[148](../../148/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh wife say: “Wuh fren?”[149](../../149/ "tree and pragmatics") De man say him prommus no fuh tell.[150](../../150/ "tree and pragmatics") De wife say but eh mus tell um, an eh bague so hard tel de man done furgit eh prommus, an eh up an mek um sensible how de ting all happne.[151](../../151/ "tree and pragmatics") Den eh wife say: “Dat snake must hab eh belly full er silber money, an me tell you wuh you do ter-morruh.[152](../../152/ "tree and pragmatics") Wen de snake come fuh talk long you, you pick you chance an chop eh head off long you ax, an tek all de money outer um.”[153](../../153/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh husbun gree fur do dist is him say.[154](../../154/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Snake, him yeddy ebry wud dem talk, an eh gone to him house in de swamp berry bex case de man wuh eh bin befren shouldder gone back on eh prommus and mek bad bargain fuh kill um.[155](../../155/ "tree and pragmatics") De nex day de man watch fuh de snake.[156](../../156/ "tree and pragmatics") Wen de sun duh lean fuh down, an de man bin a try fuh split one big log, Buh Snake crawl up long sider de log an show ehself ter de man.[157](../../157/ "tree and pragmatics") Dem talk togerrur; an de snake ax de man: “You bin show you wife de money wuh me bin gen you?”[158](../../158/ "tree and pragmatics") De man answer: “Yes, me yiz.”[159](../../159/ "tree and pragmatics") An den eh ax um: “You bin tell you wife way you bin git um?”[160](../../160/ "tree and pragmatics") De man say: “No.” De snake ax um gen: “You sho you no bin tell um you git um long me?”[161](../../161/ "tree and pragmatics") De man say: “Me tell you one time ready.[162](../../162/ "tree and pragmatics") Wuh mek you ax me dat questun gen?[163](../../163/ "tree and pragmatics") You tink me duh lie?”[164](../../164/ "tree and pragmatics") Wid dat, eh mek eh lick fuh chop de snake head off.[165](../../165/ "tree and pragmatics") De snake bin hab eh yeye on um, an eh draw back gin de log.[166](../../166/ "tree and pragmatics") De ax miss de snake, an glance back off de log an cut de man own leg off.[167](../../167/ "tree and pragmatics") De po man holler fuh somebody fuh come fuh help um.[168](../../168/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh day way in de swamp out er yearin, an noboddy yeddy.[169](../../169/ "tree and pragmatics") Wen eh duh bleed ter det, an dis befo eh dead, Buh Snake, him say ter um: “Enty me bin tell you, wen me gen you dat silber money, ef you tell you wife way you git um you guine dead one po man?[170](../../170/ "tree and pragmatics") You prommus me you guine keep de secret.[171](../../171/ "tree and pragmatics") Steader dat, you gone home ter you wife, an you show um de money, an you tell um way you git um.[172](../../172/ "tree and pragmatics") Mo na dat: you an him fix plan fuh kill me wuh bin you fren, an rob me outer wuh money me hab leff.[173](../../173/ "tree and pragmatics") Now you see de jedgment wuh come topper you.[174](../../174/ "tree and pragmatics") In try fuh chop me head off, you cut you own foot off.[175](../../175/ "tree and pragmatics") You gwine dead in dis yer wood.[176](../../176/ "tree and pragmatics") No man ner ooman gwine fine you.[177](../../177/ "tree and pragmatics") Buzzud gwine eat you.”[178](../../178/ "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/4/) **2** - ← previous: [page 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/4/) - next →: [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/5/) - ↑ back to [Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/)