Lafcadio Hearn

INTRODUCTION.

CREOLE BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs.

INDEX TO VARIOUS DIALECTS.

INDEX TO SUBJECTS OF PROVERBS.

Transcriber's Notes

Please see the Transcriber’s Notes at the end of this text.

GOMBO
ZHEBES

“Gombo ZhÈbes.”

LITTLE DICTIONARY OF CREOLE PROVERBS,
SELECTED FROM SIX CREOLE DIALECTS.

TRANSLATED INTO FRENCH AND INTO ENGLISH, WITH NOTES, COMPLETE INDEX
TO SUBJECTS AND SOME BRIEF REMARKS UPON THE CREOLE
IDIOMS OF LOUISIANA.

BY
LAFCADIO HEARN.

NEW YORK:
WILL H. COLEMAN, Publisher, No. 70, Business Quarter, Astor House.
1885.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1885, by
WILL H. COLEMAN,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.