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Keyhole
Volume 1, entries 2041. 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 2041
Last February, a year ago [1936] he was in New York. Well, he used to write often and he used to send me money. Well he got so he stopped writing and he stopped sending me any money. So one night I got down and prayed and after I got up off my knees, I thought about the old tale I had heard. Go to the keyhole and put your mouth to the keyhole right up there and call him for nine times and tell him what you Want him to know. And it wasn't two days 'fore I got a letter and ten dollars from him. Simple things, you see, lotsa times does good.
[Later he returned home.]
If he stayed out later than I want him to stay.
(Oh, at night. I see. Then what would you do?)
Nothing but git right on my knees at that keyhole and call him nine times through dat keyhole. Say like dis, "In the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, Purcell, come home to me at once." He comes, and when he comes here sometimes he say, "Honey, I'm worried to death - couldn't get chere fast enough." [Cf. margin-title Knothole, later.]