Excerpt from Bahama Songs and Stories: A Contribution to Folk-Lore 4, Worcester, 1889; and stories XXXI. And XXXV. XXXVIII., in the Journal of American folk-lore, vol. Iv. Nos. XII. And XIV, Boston and New York, 1891. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.