Subject:Buckeyes
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Entry 3147
It's a ll'le bush grow dis high called de buckeye. Well, its in de summahtime de sun dries 'em an' it cracks open an' li'le black ball draps out on de ground. [The buckeye is a tree, it and the black balls I have known since childhood.] Yo' take dat ball up an' yo' take bunch of 'em an' yo' put 'em in yo' pocket den. All right. She take one an' den yo' takes one. Yo' go on about yo' business. [Here informant's words meaning little I stopped recording, but almost imedi- ately restarted machine to ask about some promising words I had missed.]
(What was that?)
Don't want anyone toward 'er whilst yo's gone [on] yo' job. Yo' kin go on yo' job about two or three weeks - ah got a job about two or three weeks ovah heah. All right, yo' pick up dem two balls an' she take a buckeye ball an' yo' go any- whah yo' wanta go, an' she satisfy no one.
(How many of those do you carry?)
Yo' carry two an' leave her one.