The
Complaint In Crashey Jane's Letter Is About Two Boys Who Are
Torturing Her Morning, Noon, And Night, Sunday And
Weekday, by
blowing some "long long brass ting" as well as a bugle, and the way
she dwells on their
Staying power must bring a sympathetic pang for
that black sister into the heart of many a householder in London who
lives next to a ladies' school, or a family of musical tastes. "One
touch of nature," etc. "Daddy" is not a term of low familiarity but
one of esteem and respect, and the "Tampin Office" is a respectful
appellation for the Office of the "New Era" in which this letter was
once published. "Bwoy head big too much," means that the young man
is swelled with conceit because he is connected with "Militie ban."
"Woh woh" you will find, among all the natives in the Bights, to
mean extremely bad. I think it is native, having some connection
with the root Wo - meaning power, etc.; but Mr. Hutchinson may be
right, and it may mean "a capacity to bring double woe."
"Amtrang Boboh" is not the name of some uncivilised savage, as the
uninitiated may think; far from it. It is Bob Armstrong - upside
down, and slightly altered, and refers to the Hon. Robert Armstrong,
stipendiary magistrate of Sierra Leone, etc.
"Berrah well" is a phrase used whenever the native thinks he has
succeeded in putting his statement well. He sort of turns round and
looks at it, says "Berrah well," in admiration of his own art, and
then proceeds.
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