The Wooing of Beppo TateThe Wooing of Beppo Tate is a lively and popular account of life in Kendal, a small village in Jamaica, similar to the author's own childhood home. |
Contents
A home at last | 9 |
Two plus two | 19 |
Blackmail | 29 |
Bullet head pow | 38 |
A friend at last | 46 |
The Lords Comin Soon | 54 |
Face to face with Boadicea | 62 |
What do you say to God? | 68 |
Ahoo Patoo | 89 |
Women are crazy | 102 |
A big coup | 113 |
Rendezvous | 124 |
Caught you | 131 |
IS Matchmakers | 140 |
Mangoes mangoes | 147 |
Two plus two equals zero | 154 |
Common terms and phrases
ackee Ahoo alligator jowls anyway asked Aunha beat Beltshazzar Beppo Tate birds blackmail Boadicea Bobby Shafto Boysie breadfruit buggy bush called catapult chicken chicks course crayfish crazy Daphne Belmont deep devil E'll eyes face fish fish-pot fool funny gave George Kirby girl goat goin going guess hair hands hate head How'd jackfruit Jeez Jenkins jumped kind knew laughed looked Lordy Lucea ma'am Marcia Mark Dunn Mavis mean meat milk Miss Clemens mongoose morning mother mouth nice night Oh boy Oh yes Patoo play pockets pulled red dust river rope Roy Penner seemed shot smiled smoke snapped soon stupid Sunday sure talking tell Teppy Teppy's Thank there's thing thought throat told turned verandah wait walked want your corn watched What's woman yard you's