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SINNER'S GRAVE
Volume 4, entries 7559. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → HOW TO OBTAIN GRAVEYARD DIRT → DIRT FROM WHAT TYPE OF GRAVE. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 7559
Ah nevah heerd nuthin 'bout de bo'd, but ah heered now when yuh go tuh git dis dirt, yuh have tuh carry three pennies. All right, yuh go dere an' yuh have dem three pennies in yore han' an' yuh reach right down. It have tuh be somebody dat don' have religion - some sinnah. Yuh take dese pennies an' put 'em right down in dis grave an' leave de pennies an' pick up de dirt.
(Then you use the dirt?)
-Den yuh git de dirt.