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Author a Bootlegger
Volume 1, entries 808. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → THE DOCTORS THEMSELVES: BIRTH TO DEATH: DESCRIBED BY LAYMEN. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 808
[I was called other things (see Introduction) besides doctor:]
Yo' not a bootleggah, are yo'? [I shook my head.] Ah jes' wanted tuh know. Well, ah tell yo' whut chew do. See, go tuh de drug sto' an' git chew a ten-cent bottle of this stuff yo' call rubbin' alcohol. All right, leave from dere an' git chew a ten-cent bottle of witch hazel, an' jes' mix dat together, an' ever' mawnin' when yo' git up, jes' rub it on yore han's. All de people jes' comin' in rushin'.
(Simple as that.)
Simplest thing - cost yo' twenty cents. [Brunswick, Ga., (1210), 2045:7.] After informant - root doctor and bootlegger - leaves, I comment to Telediphone, "This woman came yesterday and she wouldn't talk to me."]