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Two Years in the French West Indies

Note 38 — Front matter (continued 6)

Reading edition · Edition 2

"Vouèla Cendrillon evec yon bel ròbe velou grande lakhè.... Ça té ka bail ou mal ziè. Li té tini bel zanneau dans zòreill li, quate-tou-chou, bouoche, bracelet, tremblant,—toutt sòte bel baggaïe conm ça."...—(Conte Cendrillon,—d'après Turiault.)

—"There was Cendrillon with a beautiful long trailing robe of velvet on her!... It was enough to hurt one's eyes to look at her! She had beautiful rings in her ears, and a collier-choux of four rows, brooches, tremblants, bracelets,—everything fine of that sort."—(Story of Cinderella in Turinault's Creole Grammar).

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