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MANTEL - PHOTO STANDING UP HEAD DOWN ON
Volume 4, entries 8190. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 8190
An' den yo' kin take a persons's photograph an' jes' lak ah'd [Iwould] take yure photograph, an' yo'ere [you were] mah fren'-lak, an' yo' wuz away from me an' had treated me wrong. Well, ah'd take yure photograph an' stand it up on de mantel. Well, now, yo'd [you bad] tuh come back tuh me, or eithah worry yo'self tuh death.
(How would you stand it up on the mantel?)
Stand it up on it's haid. See, it be up lak dat [demonstrates], see, yo' ondahstan', an' he'd be standin' down on 'is haid, upside down. Dat'll make him cme back.