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CALAMUS AND GUNSHOT - FOR BIG BUSINESS
Volume 5, entries 10852. Source context: "CHANNEL DE WORLD". Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 10852
If a person wanta git in big business, dey haven't got nuthin tuh do [but] tuh git him some powders an' git dis cal'mus powders. Yo' know cal'=ns powders whut chew take but it's not rhubarb cal'mus it cal'mus itself [calamus = Acoris calanus, the sveet flag, its aromatic root]. An' yo' take dat cal'mus powder an' yo'oear dat cal'- mis powder, see. Yo' wear dat cal'mus powder an' den yo' git chey some guashot - not gunpowder, de gunshot outa de gun shell, jis' lak dese bullets, an' beat den up. An' beat dem up an' den yo' jes' take an' wash dat thing off right good. Yo' have tuh wash it right round yoreself. See, jis' lak de pistol ball, yo' have tuh take dat ball [shot] right outa dere.... An' jis' take dat an' jis' use it round yoreself. See, jis' round yoreself, jis' lak dat. Den yo' tie dat up into a silk corner of a pocket han'ke'ch'ef, jis' in de corner of a pocket han'- ke'ch'ef, an' den yo' kin git [down to] business.
(How do you mean you rub yourself?)
Jis' take yore privates, understan' - jis' lak yo' do with a woman, under- stan'.
(The wcman does this in business?)
Sho', dat's right.
(She takes the powder out of the gunshell and mixes it with this other stuff?)
Dat's right.