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HATBAND AND SWEATBAND
Volume 4, entries 5923. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → HAIR. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 5923
Well, I wuz goin' wit a gurl an', yo' know, I didn't lak 'er yo' know, much. An' so I tried yo' know to break away from 'er. An' I jis' kep' - it seem lak I couldn't git away from 'er. So one day I wuz rid- in' a bicycle, see, an' I had taken my hat off, an' it wuz yo' know, a patch of hair right in de ban' [sweat- band] of mah hat. An' so I taken it out an' looked at it. Yo' know dere's a fellah dat used to live at Seventh an' Sewanee, I think. Well, I car'ed it out dere an' he tole me to take a - 'e taken it an' put it in a bottle, an' tole me to bus' [= bust = burst] it up, yo' know, in front of 'er do'. An' I bus' it up an' I ain't had no trouble wit 'er since.