Note 16 — Front matter (continued 4)

—"Where dost stay, dear?"

—"Affaire of the goat are not affaire of the rabbit."

—"But why art thou dressed all in black thus?"

—"I wear mourning for my dead soul."

—"Aïe ya yaïe!... No, true!... where art thou going now?"

—"Love is gone: I go after love."

—"Ho! thou hast a Wasp [lover]—eh?"

—"The zanoli gives a ball; the maboya enters unasked."

—"Tell me where thou art going, sweetheart?"

—"As far as the River of the Lizard."

—"Fouinq!—there are more than thirty kilometres!"

—"What of that?—do t thou want to come with me?"