New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-07-20
4 TISIT TO HAYTI. 80. No. y.
HAYTIAN PROVERBS.


JACMEL, HAYTI, March 9, 1859.
/ have already sent you one hundred Haytan
Proverbs: here are
ONE HUNDRED MORE.
|. Eyes shame eyes
III. "Be ore the drum, you know the singer (or
daDcer)" by ones acts you know him.
III. "Other birds fly, AMI people say nothing;
but when The hawk hovers near, they curse il"
~. Don't put your macrout (basket) beyond
Your reach"
V. "You must not be afraid of the eyes, if you
want to .kin the head"
vi. "You cant catch neas with one finger"
VII. "When you 90 to the donkey house, don't
ask il his ears are long"
VIII. "A hungry belly has got no ears.
lX. "Cockroaches ought not to dispute with
hens" (Ths proverb, also, has been applied as
threat by the blacks to the mul,ttoes.)
y. Measure your cloth before you cut it."
~ "The wawals that whips the mother will
whip the child"
XII. "The stick that nogs the white dog will
fog the black dog, too
XIII. "a fool may embarrass wise man.
XIV. "PottDgis better than wanga." Com
plot pis 70 parse wanga.) That is, 1t is better to
work than trust in Providence: better to rely on
heavy battalions or dry powder than miraculous
interpretations.
XIV. "Walls have ears"
XVI Being in hurry TO ask does not make
people give
Xvii. at is not every time Marguerite goes to
Leoeabe that she brings back good sirup.'
XVIII. "IUpudent children carry their collins
under their armplts."
XIX. "My stomach is not safe"
NX. Cucumber is good for Jack"
&NI. "Whtn the snake is dead you know the
size of it, (Often used, my lsDdlady told me,
when rich old men die and leave their property to
be divded.)
XIII. IF the distance is great the gambo has
time 10 be tender"
XXIII. water that has a bad head always gets
| into n calabash.'
XXlv. 1.-THE bottle is not full: how will the
| cork get away ~
XIV. when the owner of the goat tells you
to Nil it, don't object that II is great with young
XXVl. "If YOU don't want to eat horse dung,
| don't 90 to play with the cuckoo"
XANII. The Leart that signs has lot what 1t
| signs for
XXVIlI. "The mountain has brought forth a
mousc - Greek proyerb IS sometimes rendered
in Creole.
MIX. my step mother is not my mother
NIX. "A bad head plants corn, and when it
comes up It turns out to be bamboo"
NXXl. BE in haste tohsten, but not 20 speak.
NXXII. elf YOU don't want leaves to fall on you,
| don't Ell under tree"
XXXIU. "When the mspou falls the goats eat
its leaves When great men fall from power, the
| mob despises ueu
XXXlV. The church is burned, but the saints
| remsiu.'
XXXv. 1.-THE deg has got four legs, but it can't
travel m four rosds.''
XXXYI. "When misfortune overtakes the whl'e
msn, he is willing TO dance the Bamboula Can
African dsnce)
XXXVll. Think of running, but think of being
| istgued, too"
XXXVIlI "The ant never dies under a sugar
| barrel"
XXXlX. "When the gusns's tail is cut he viii
! hide his comrades hole:' and
| XII. 1.-THE lizard gives his wife salt by the hand
| full" are proverbs which could not find any one
| who understood.
MI. "If you don't want to eat frogs, don't
| dsrce with the snake
| XLII. "When TIE river comes down it binders
you from crossing; but it does lot hinder you from
| going back"
XI.llI. "One dog is embarrassed with two
saucepsns.'
XLiy. Every animal thinks himself fat, and
80 does the shell, too" and
! XIV. "When you are embarrassed in a road,
| hold On to the wicked horse" are another mystic
nous couple which sm compelled to confess do
| not understand.
XLYI. "When four eyes meet, there is no ~
| ing"
| ALNIl. " When your comrades beard has
| caught ire, put your own 10 soak.
NLVIll. "When the kitchen has caught fire,
| remember the house lie not far Oft. ~
XLlX. Sickness Is stronger than c9ursge,'