Marly, Or a Planter's Life in Jamaica (Classic Reprint)Excerpt from Marly, or a Planter's Life in Jamaica When they were passing several of the negroes in the yard at the back of the house, he observed a smile on their faces, which he took to himself; but, if he had not, it would soon have been confirmed to him beyond a doubt, that he was the subject; for when they thought he was beyond hearing, he heard one of them exclaim to the others, Eh! Mosquitoes, hab grandy nyamn on dat new buckra l Marly being ignorant of the negro corrupted dialect, or the talkee talkee language, did not understand the expression; but observing Graceson to smile, with combined smothered feelings of anger and shame, he asked an explanation of what the negro had said. Graceson laughing, answered, that the negro only meant, that the mosquitoes had had an excellent feast on your rich blood. But, added he, ' these vile insects will soon give over biting you, and the only. Inconvenience you will afterwards sustain from them, will be from their buzzing, and this it is in a manner in possible. To prevent, use every precaution you please. And when one considers the very small size of this winged tor ment, it excites every person's wonder, how their buzzing is so loud, that the negro name of Devil's Trumpeter for them, is, I must confess, not much forced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
