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File (tool)
Volume 1, entries 2476–2478. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 2476
Git chew two little files an' put up ovah yore do' an' ev'ry mornin' for nine mornin's sprinkle a little table salt an' sulphur ovah dem, an' yo'll jest have all de customers yo' want. (How do you put those files up over the door?) Put one dis heah, put one jes' lak dat [demonstrates].
(In the form of an "x".)"[Cross them.]
In de form of an "x".
Entry 2477
Go to de hardware sto' and buy yo' fo' files, fo' little - two little round-corner [rattail] files, an' den git chew two three-corner [three-square] files, an' put dose fo' files together, turn two of 'em haid down an' two of 'em points up. Nobody in de world kin harm yo'.
(If anybody comes around to your house and harms you?)
No sir, can't come round to yore house and harm yo'.
Entry 2478
I lived with a woman and she was selling herself, and she told me that the law never would come to her house, and she only got her a file and drove it in each corner of her house, and she said that the law wouldn't come there. And another time when we moved in another house and she hadn't had a chance to put these files up, the law came in and she told me he'd never come back again. She say, "Baby, get some salt and throw behind him and sweep it right on out." And I went and put some salt behind him and then swept on back straight and he never came back. And no other law ever came in that house all the time she was selling herself.
(You mean, they put a file in each of the four corners of the house?)
Just a file.
(Outside or inside?)
Inside - stick 'em up in de corner.
(I see. What do you do - stick them into the wall or the floor?)
No, in the wall.