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62 All the Way to Kingston We Recall Urban Legends And was Long George, AKA Sea Cow, really the island’s tallest man? And did he legally take as wife Tiny, the shortest of all women, when a fly-by-night two-ring circus with a mangy one-eyed mawga lion pitched tent—admission one shilling— to see tear-arse clown and unsteady trapeze act in Kingston Race course? Remember how after the circus came, our old dog ‘Bullet’ went astray? Boys in the neighbourhood claimed our canine had been sold to the circus for lion-meat. We the children wept a bit, but truth was we didn’t miss Bullet; the dog was known for biting even small hands that fed him. ...

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