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GRAVEYARD DIRT AND COW PASTURE
Volume 4, entries 7322. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → MURDER → HOW MURDERER CAN ESCAPE. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 7322
Yo' kin go to de graveyard an' git some graveyard dust. Yessuh, an' den dey kin put some in dere shoe, an' run on to a cow pasture an' keep on goin'. An' den dey kin come on back an' git yo' fingah- print or yore han'print an' dat'll work a long ways. (What do you go to the graveyard for - what's wrong?) Jes' lak if yo' happen tuh be in any trouble any way. (You go to the graveyard and get some graveyard dirt, and what do you do with that graveyard dirt?) Put it in yore shoe, so dey say, an' den run through a cow pasture, if yo' in any trouble or anythin'.
(What will that do?)
Dat will he'p yo' git away. Dat whut dey say. [Sumter, S. Car., (1378), 2448.