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GATE AND RENTMAN
Volume 4, entries 7788. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → WHAT TO DO WITH GRAVEYARD DIRT. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 7788
Git some of dat graveyard dirt an' jes' throw it right to yore gate, an' when he [landlord or rentman] come along, he'll pass by, pass right on by.
(The landlord couldn't move you out of the house?)
No suh, couldn't move yo' out de house.
The answer claims the resident could not be moved out. Landlord identification is supplied in interviewer/editorial context, and no protective result is independently established.