112 Children of Yayoute

 One day the girl told her parents that she was in love
with M'sieur de Teauteau. The parents talked it over and
decided to ask their guest what his intentions were.
 aHe has not asked us for her hand, because he is bashful.
I know you men,, said the mother teasingly. They put the
right words in M'sieur de Teauteau's mouth and he became
engaged to their daughter.
 The news of the engagement echoed everywhere in the
 hills, and all the neighborhood young women were envious
 of M'sieur de Teauteau's fiancee. -We must admit that she
 is pretty,) they gossiped around, -but she is indeed lucky
 to find a handsome European, with a title, for her groom.,
 The wedding plans were unusually hurried, which was
rather astonishing, for in those days the people used to have
very long engagements. The festivities had no equal. It
was in a villa in Bois Verna in Port-au-Prince that they
spent their honeymoon.
 A few days after the wedding, Bouqui thought it was
high time to change M'sieur de Teauteau back to his former
self and thus enjoy the success of his vengeance. With a
handful of boiled sweet potato peels he went in the yard of
the newly weds. He sang the song taught to him by the
bocor :
 aTeauteau, Teauteau, good dog!
 Where have you been for days?
 I bring you sweet potato peel,
 For I know you're my friend always!,
 M'sieur de Teauteau who was in bed, with his wife,
 was awakened by his master's voice. He began to yap as
 dogs usually do when they see someone they like.