Part 4 — CLXXIV.
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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.)