253 Bajan Proverbs / Page 8
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The cow is given a present when her calf is carried away.142.
The cow that drops her calf in the sun feeds it there too.143.
The day is for working, the night is for resting.144.
The dunghill grows by straws thrown upon it.145.
The elders of the council do not jump over a brook.146.
The fed baby plays on its mother's bed.147.
The flea troubles him who has got it in his ear.148.
The food eaten first lasts longest in the stomach.149.
The food that is in the mouth is not yet in the belly.150.
The foot and the earth cannot help meeting.151.
The goat slaughtered for a man who is sick now, finds another who ws sick long before.152.
The goats pasture with bells hanging from their necks in order not to stray.153.
The good milking cow is praised after her death.154.
The hump of the ox that has grown old must be eaten by women.155.
The hunter's son knows how to hunt.156.
The hyena calls another hyena worse than itself.157.
The hyena does not eat its baby, and you know how insatiable it is.158.
The little bird that flaps its wings too much will spoil them.159.
The man that serves is not prevented from being served in turn.160.
The man who has no impurity will be helped even by peels he sees on the road.