Subject:Buttonroot
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Entry 2442
Well, dey do dat wit herbs. Dere's a little herb dey call buttonroot, grows jest about dat hight.
(Two inches high?)
Yeah, an' yo' take de buttonroot and yo' plant it in a tub. Yo' place it on whatever you got in front in de yard. If yo' got a buttress yo' place de button- root ovah there. Gits yo' a red rose and yo' place it over heah - you know, jis' ozit [opposite] with that buttonroot. And then early in de morning yo' takes some salt and throw out between these two individual things, dis rose and dis root ovah heah, and then after you have done that yo' go back into the house and anything made of silver, that chew burn, an' that officer won't come.
(If you are bootlegging or anything of that sort?)
Yeah.