Subject:Porpoise
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Entry 12693
(What are you sup- posed to do with those? A sturgeon?) A porpoise. (Oh a porpoise!) [On the American Atlantic coast probably the bottle- nosed dolphin.] I know what you kin do about some of his filth. You kin take his filth and dry it.
(Of the porpoise?)
Yes. You walk to the seashore an' you find dese little small round balls. That his manure.
(That's his manure?)
Yeah. You take that and you'll dry it till it a dust, sprinkle it in your [victim's] clothes an' you [victim] can't stay in dere.
(Can't do what?)
Can't stay in your clothes. You can't stay in your own clothes, burns you just the same as pepper.
(People do that to somebody to harm them, I suppose. That the idea?)
Yes, but it will make them uneasy and make 'em miserable.
(Are these round balls hard or are they soft, that you find on the shore?)
Well, it depend on how long it had left his bowels.
(Oh, I see. Is it any particular color?)
Black, little round balls about long as that [demonstrates].
(About an inch round.)
Yeah, you take some of them and dry 'em,