Word: chickcharneys
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...Chamberlain was no appeaser in those days; besides, there are few on Andros, even today, who have actually seen a chickcharney (first cousin to a leprechaun). Some time ago a native awoke in a thicket at sunrise, after a rum-soaked night, and saw them by the thousands at their morning ritual-carrying snakes to hundreds of tiny cauldrons on the beach, anointing their supple bodies with snake oil, dressing themselves each with an almond leaf in front and an almond leaf behind, and swinging off through the trees like tiny Tarzans to hunt game with bows & arrows...
...most Andros natives, although they know well the little men with their pink, staring eyes, toothless mouths and flame-red beards, avert their eyes when they feel a chickcharney near by, for if you bump into one face to face your only hope is to press thumb and little finger into your palm and hold up the other three fingers. Then the chickcharney may take you for a comrade; he himself has only three fingers or three toes on each limb...
...there is no chance whatever for a man who destroys a chickcharney's home; so when young Chamberlain insisted on cutting down a certain tree to build a railroad across his farm, the wise Andros natives refused to do it. "Boss man, he lookin' for trouble," they said. Chamberlain hired a crew from Nassau and cut down the tree anyhow. Soon after, of course, his farm failed...
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