When Annancy wake out of sleep he say:--"Make me fly."
He broke a branch off a the tree, t'row in the sea. The branch swim.
Annancy say if the branch swim him will swim, an' he jump off a the tree, drop in the sea an' sink.
An' when he go down a sea bottom he meet Sea-mahmy.
He said to Sea-mahmy:--"Mumma, mother tell me me have a cousin down a sea bottom, ya."
Sea-mahmy say:--"I going to see if me and you are cousin."
Sea-mahmy put a pan of sand in the fire for well hot. When him get hot he take it off a the fire, give to Brother Annancy for drink it off.
Brother Annancy say:--"Cousin Sea-mahmy, it don' hot enough. Put it out a de sun fe make it hot more."
After him put it out a the sun then he say:--"Cousin Sea-mahmy, I think it hot now."
An' Sea-mahmy say:--"Well you must drink it off an' make I see if you an' me are cousin."
Annancy spend t'ree day down a sea bottom.
Well! the next day Sea-mahmy said to him:--"Whé you going to come out."
Him said:--"Cousin Sea-mahmy, sen' one of you son fe carry me out a lan'."
Sea-mahmy give him one of him son, the name of that son call Trapong.
Well! Trapong an' Annancy travel, make middle in a sea.
Trapong, Trapong, fetch back 'tranger man, come back.]
An' Trapong say:--"'Top, Brother Annancy, I think I hear my mother calling me back."
Annancy say:--"No, make way! War de 'pon sea!"
An' Trapong sail with Annancy on him back till they reach shore.
When they go to shore he say:--"Bro'er Trapong, take dis bag weigh me, see whé me weigh."
Trapong lift him up, say:--"Yes, Brother Annancy you heavy."
He say:--"Bro'er Trapong, you come in make I weigh you see."
Trapong say:--"Brother Annancy you a tie me too 'trong."
He say:--"Me no a tie you fe see if you heavy?"
Trapong say to Brother Annancy:--"Me heavy?"
Annancy say:--"You heavy oh! You light oh! You heavy enough fe me wife pot." An' for all the bahl Trapong a bahl he gone back to him house an' Annancy eat him.
=height=, in the height of, at the worst of.
=feedin' tree.= It was a duckanoo mango according to some accounts.
Annancy behaves just as he did with Candlefly and the eggs.
The connecting =wells= of this story, which take the place of the =ands= and =sos= of other narrators are said with a little upward turn of the voice.