Junior and the duppies

Junior claimed that his special gift was to drink rum and get drunk. swear and curse. Sissy is a tongues speaking Holy Ghost filled and baptized Christian. The two does not like each other. One night Junior was on his way home drunk as usual when he encountered a fantastic lady in the dark. Later when he described the lady for his friends she turn out to be a lady that had been dead for some time. This was the beginning of two duppies following Junior and terrorizing the men of the community.
Finally junior decide to do something about the duppies following him home in the nights. He consulted Sissy for advice but when she heard of his plans she would not allow him to carry out the plans alone so she insisted that he take her along. Together Junior and Sissy planned for the duppies.

(Extract from Junior and the duppies taken from the book For Love of Him)

   Junior had no idea for how long he had been sleeping but he came awake suddenly when he felt something wet on his face. There investigating him was Sissy big black boar pig. Gathering his befuddled thoughts he sat up wondering the time of day.

 “You can tell who a man is by the company he keeps,” Sissy said from not far away. Junior looked and saw Sissy with a piece of rope in her hand. He knew immediately that the pig had come loose and Sissy had come looking for it.

Looking disgustedly at the pig Sissy addressed it “Imagine I take such good care of you and you get loose and look at the company I find you keeping, I am ashamed of you.”

  Thinking about it later Junior swore the pig looked on him with contempt before it walked away with it head hung low. Laughing ruefully he wondered if a pig’s head could go any lower.

    Looking at Junior Sissy demanded in a stern preacher’s voice “Oh drunkard how long shall you deny the hard working the comfort of their sleeping in their own beds in peace and quietness?”

      In the state he was Junior had some choice word he wanted to tell her but it was Sunday he remembered and he remembered his dead mother. He remembered a promise he made to his mother before she died and he remembered a promise not to swear and curse in the presence of a female though he swore and cursed loud enough for them to hear.

      Sissy thought it was because of shame and remorse that caused Junior to hang his head but in reality he was still having a splitting head ache and at that moment did not want to see or hear anyone.

     “If you know what I know you would not provoke me just now” Junior said still bending his head.