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10. MINNIE: Those little yellow pamphlets. My very first ones. MRS STARR: The big collection? Y1 MINNIE: Ah-hah. The big collection of little, big, yellow--the very first ones. MRS Starr: Yes. MINNIE: Well, those were the ones. I couldn't do anything at all unless I kept them with me. So on this particular night we had company and showing them to this man was there, I forgot and left them home on the dresser, not thinking. When I carried the pocketbook I thought I had them with me. And I didn't miss 'em the first time, so when I got there and started to the door I heard her husband beating on a tom-tom, something, and lots of people standing all around, and I heard him announce, "Madam Tula--" something. And I said, "Oh, here's that lady. I'm going here and let her tell me something 'bout my pictures." And I opened (coughs) my purse-- MRS STARR: Just wait a minute. MINNIE: And I opened my purse and I didn't' have them. I said, "My, I haven't got them. I'll have to go back home and get them." I'd started on out. Something spoke to me, says, "If she can tell you anything, she can tell you as much without them as she can with them." So to my surprise, I went right on in there. The place was crowded. And what seems so funny, when I walked up there, everybody moved out of the way and let me go get through to the front. Why they paid so much attention to me I don't know. As I went on