68. * Çaquéne senti so doulére. (Chacun sent sa douleur.)
"Everybody has his own troubles."--[_Mauritius._]
69. Çarbon zamés va done la farine. (Le charbon jamais ne donnera de farine.)
"Coal will never make flour."--You can't wash a negro white.--[_Mauritius._]
70. Çatte boire dilhouile enbas latabe. (Le chat boit l'huile sous la table.)
"Cat's drinking the oil under the table."--People are making fun at your expense, though you don't know it.--[_Mauritius._]
71. Çatte noir apéle larzent.[30] (Un chat noir présage [appelle] de l'argent.)
"A black cat brings money (good luck.)"--[_Mauritius._]
[30] This is certainly of English origin.
72. Çatte qui éna matou fére lembarras. (La chatte qui a un matou fait ses embarras.)
"The she-cat who has a tom-cat, puts on airs."--[_Mauritius._]
73. Çatte qui fine bourle av difé pére lacende. (Le chat qui s'est brûlé avec le feu, a peur de la cendre.)
"When a cat has been once burned by fire, it is even afraid of cinders."--[_Mauritius._]
74. Causer cé manger zoreîes. (Causer, c'est le manger des oreilles.)
"Conversation is the food of the ears."--[_Trinidad._]
75. C'est bon khé crâbe qui lacause li pas tini tête. (C'est à cause de son bon c[oe]ur que le crabe n'a pas de tête.)
"It is because of his good heart that the crab has no head."[31]--[_Martinique._]
[31] Implies that excessive good nature is usually indicative of feeble reasoning-power.
76. * C'est couteau qui connaite ça qui dans c[oe]ur geomon. (C'est le couteau qui sait ce qu'il y a dans le c[oe]ur du giromon.)
"It's the knife that knows what's in the heart of the pumpkin."[32]--[_Martinique._]
[32] This proverb exists in five Creole dialects. In the Guyana patois it is slightly different: _Couteau oûnso connain quior iniam_ (le couteau seul connaît le c[oe]ur de l'igname.) "It's only the knife knows what's in the heart of the yam."
77. C'est cuiller qui allé lacail[33] gamelle; gamelle pas jamain allé lacail cuiller. (C'est la cuiller qui va à la maison de la gamelle; jamais la gamelle ne va à la maison de la cuiller.)
"Spoon goes to bowl's house; bowl never goes to spoon's house."--[_Hayti._]
[33] _Caïe_ or _Caille_, as sometimes written, is a Creole word of Carib origin. In the cities of the Antilles _case_ is generally substituted--probably derived from the Spanish _casa_, "house."