An answer: "Why HIMSELF [emphatic subject pronoun among
Barbadians] didn't know if he'd get a job."

To a six-foot black giant working as night-hostler of steam-
shovels:

"Well, Josiah, I suppose you're a Jamaican?"

"Oh, yes, boss, ah work in Kingston ten years as a bar-maid."

"Married?"

"No, boss, ah's not 'xactly married. Ah's livin' with a person."

A colored family:

Sarah Green, very black, has a child named Edward White, and is
now living with Henry Brown, a light yellow negro.

West Indian wit:

A shop-sign in Empire: "Don't ask for credit. He is gone on
vacation since January 1, 1912."

Laughter and carefree countenances are legion in the West Indian
ranks, children seem never to be punished, and to all appearances
man and wife live commonly in peace and harmony. Dr. O----tells
the following story, however: