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Three Stitches

Volume 1, entries 2330. 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 2330

Volume 1 · printed page 653 · Savannah, Ga.

Well, yo' kin take a sewin' needles an' yo' kin take a pair of slips - git hold of a pair of slips, dat is bloomers. An' yo' kin go tuh work den an' yo' kin snatch three stitches right into de seat of de person's slips. Buy a pair of new slips, Jes' lak if yo' wanta make a person a present of 'em, an' yo' kin drop three small stitches like into de seat an' dat'll lock dey bowels.

(Then you give them that new pair of slips.)

Yeah, jes' as a present yo' know.

Related subjects: Bloomers, Needles, Sew

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