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"Salt here too who de debil do such a ting? must not let Duppy taste dat." He discussed this also, placing the empty vessel in the coffin as he had done with the other. He then came to the calabash with the rum. There is no salt there, thought I. "Rum! ah, Duppy love rum if it be well strong, let me see Massa Niger, who put water in a dis rum, eh?

"Duppy come! Duppy come! Massa Tom Cringle ghost stand at for we door; we all shall dead, oh we all shall go dead, oh!" bellowed the father of gods, my old ally Jupiter. "Guid guide us, that's an awful sicht!" quod the Scotch bookkeeper.

Er ist taub wie gewohnlich" for there is no organised cult for Anzam. Accounts of apparitions abound in all the West Coast districts, and although the African holds them all in high horror and terror, he does not see anything supernatural in his "Duppy."

I was fascinated with terror, and could not move a muscle; at length the creature slowly swung itself up again, and disappeared amongst the branches. Quashie gained courage, as the rum began to operate, and the snake to disappear. "Come to catch Quaccols Duppy, before him get to Africa, sure as can be.

The following was the chant: "I say, broder, you can't go yet." "When de morning star rise, den we put you in a hole." "Den you go in a Africa, you see Fetish dere." "You shall nyam goat dere, wid all your family." "Buccra can't come dere; say, dam rascal, why you no work?" "Buccra can't catch Duppy, no, no."

To him and his familiars are attributed all manner of queer tales, one of which, from Jamaica, may be quoted as an illustration: Sarah Winyan, an orphan of ten, lived with her aunt, while her two brothers kept house by themselves a mile or two away. This aunt was an Obeah witch, the duppy, or devil ghost, that was her familiar, appearing as a great black dog that she called Tiger.

At least I know an air by which she will recognize me, if I do but hum a stave." "Why, you do not even know that that light is hers! Down, for your life!" And Amyas dragged him down into the bushes on his left hand; for one of the negroes, wakening suddenly with a cry, had sat up, and began crossing himself four or five times, in fear of "Duppy," and mumbling various charms, ayes, or what not.

He lifted the gourd with the pork, and took a large mouthful. "How is dis? I can't put dis meat in Quacco's coffin, dere is salt in de pork; Duppy can't bear salt," another large mouthful "Duppy hate salt too much," here he ate it all up, and placed the empty gourd in the coffin. He then took up the one with boiled yam in it, and tasted it also.

I returned the coin to Noah, assuring him that I had no further need of it, and he went away well pleased, assured of the protection of the white man's duppy the token of the good spirits which he venerates as much as he fears the bugaboos. I was not to get off after all.

Duppy will never touch dat" a long pull "no, no, never touch dat." Here he finished the whole, and placed the empty vessel beside the others; then gradually sunk back on his hams with his mouth open, and his eyes starting from the sockets, as he peered up into the tree, apparently at some terrible object.