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Volume 4, entries 5681. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → SWEAT → FOOT TRACK. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.

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Entry 5681

Volume 4 · printed page 2909–2910 · St. Petersburg, Fla.

Dey could go on down den an' dey could take yore track an' put it in a tater [potato].

(You mean an Irish potato?)

No sir, a potatuh, a sweet potatuh. Take yore track an' put it in a sweet potatuh an' stop it back up an' put a peg in dat tatuh an' throw it in de rivah, an' yondah yo' go. (That's to send you away?) Send joo right on away.

(Do they take both tracks or what?)

Take de lef' track, an' ag'in dey could take yore right.

Related subjects: Footprints, Peg, River, Sweetpotato, Tracks

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