Students of English at the University of Guyana over the past two years have been going out into the field to collect samples of Guyanese oral literature. This is a renewal of a similar activity that was the practice some years ago when students of Adeola James and Ian Robertson were engaged in field work. Dr James herself has documented quite a collection in the UG Library while her colleague Victorine Grannum Solomon has published a collection of Guyanese proverbs. Earlier this year