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Seven Brothers
Volume 1, entries 2741. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → SHRINES: ALTARS - CANDLES - SAINTS; NEW ORLEANS AREA → (1) ALTARS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 2741
Go out there an' git that an' send that off, see.
(Get this graveyard dirt?)
Yes sir, git dat. Gits it outa de head part - de face, see, but chew have to know personally dat dose people - how dey buried. If dey buried on dere back, yo' see, an' yo' gits dat right out de face of co'se. Den yo sends that off - yo' sends it off to dose Seven Brothers in New York. Ah reckon yo' heard talk of dose Seven Brothers, an dey'll dress dat an' send it back to yo' an' de red flannel, see, an' put nine pins in dat an' dis Heart-Home Perfune - keep it perfumed [fed] wit it, helps yo' to do de work. [The mail-order firm sells ingredients only; you must make the bag - a hand.] It will give you luck an' keep yo' - it's jest lak de powders, too, it keeps yore enemies away from you an' yo' successful in business of any kind that chew wanta start.