Browse:Drawing Oil (Volume 1, entries 1845–1846)
Drawing Oil
Volume 1, entries 1845–1846. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → HANDS: MAGIC HELPERS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 1845
She kin go to the drug store an' get her some drawing oil.
(Some drawing oil?)
Yes. Get her some steel dust, an' get some Jockey Club Perfume. (Jockey Club?) Yeah. An' put his name down on a piece of paper three times an' soak it in that bottle.
(And then what will she do?)
An' she jis' keep dat an' shake it up an' make her wish over it.
(That'll bring the man back?)
He'll come back.
Entry 1846
(What do they do with the shoes?)
They kin dress your shoes.
(How do they dress them? Do you know?)
Well, how would they dress your shoes? I had a pair of shoes dressed for me, but it was dressed for my good - for luck for me. An' then the lady made a leather pad for me.
(Why was that?)
She made another pad. She had inside this [pad], she had a silver dime.... My husband was away from me. All right. An' from the way things was workin' out - he were workin', he were makin' plenty money. The way things Was workin' out, I wasn't gittin' whut I's suppose to git. An' from the way things were, he sent for me to send belongings of his'n away from here that should of stayed here. You understand. So I went to see about myself. So she explained everything to me. So she told me, she say, "I'm gon'a make you a pad to wear in your shoe.
(Pad?)
Yes. New leather. An' she made that. She put a silver dime, put some he and she todestone, some steel dust in there, some drawin' oil she put in there. She sewed that up. She give it to me to wear under the bottom of my feet. An' she give me a bottle with some drawin' oil, an' ever' day to put one drop on the pad; take an' put three drops here - under the door [on the saddle], an' there.
(Oh, the hinges - on the top and lower hinges.)
Yeah. And in thirty days time, she say, he would be knockin' on the door. So, all right. The day when the thirty days was up, he didn't come that day. He come that night.