253 Bajan Proverbs / Page 15
- 141. 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.

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