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won erway en I haint nebex‘ seed him ergin en Itse had five ohilluns en de white folks hey hoped me all dose years. Dese trifling nlggers dey wont hope dey own kind o~ folks. If youse got de tooth ache I makes a poultice of scrape irish pertatoes en puts hit on de jaw on de side de tooth is aching en dat sho takes de fever out of de tooth. I‘se blows terbacco smoke in de ear en dat stops de ear ache.

	“Wen I goes on er baby case I jest let nature hey hits way. I ~se alays teas de baby do first thing I does is ter blow my breath inde baby‘s muff en I spanks it jes a little so hit will cry den I gives hit war~a catnip tea so if hit is gwine ter ‘-ďev de hives dey will break out on hit. I alays hey niy own catnip on sheep balls foh sum cases need one kind of tea en sum ornother. I give sin~k field tea ter foh de colic. Hit is jes good fuli young baby‘s stomac1~ I‘se been grarLning foh nigh unter forty year en Pse only lost two babies, dat war born erlive. One of dose war de white man‘s fault, dis bably war born wid do jaundice en I ~ tolds dis white man ter go ter de store en git me sum calomel en he says, ‘whoebor heard of givin a bab~r sech truck‘, an so dat baby died.

	no1 course yous~ can ted w-heder the baby is gwine t er be a boy er girl fore tis born. If de mother carries dat child more on de left en high up dat baby wi].l be a boy en if she carries hit more ter do middle dat will be a girl. Mothers oughter be more careful while carrying dar chilluns not ter git scared of enthing foh dey will sho mark dar babies wid turrible ugly ‚ things • I knows once a young wooman war expecting en she g~ s b lack-berry hunting en er bull o~ wid long horns got after her en she was so soairt dat she threw her hands ober her head. en wen dat baby boy war born he hod to mths: on his head. jes like horns beginning ter grow so I‘se hod her call

.	herdootor.On dey outs dem .. off. ~ One whitewocman I‘ae waited onlike hot
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