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'twix' de quarters en de big house, en de goopher nebber wuk agin him dat summer. But de beatenes' thing you eber see happen ter Henry. Up ter dat time he wuz ez ball ez a sweeten' 'tater, but des ez dfsoon ez de young leaves begun ter come out on de grapevimes,  de ha'r begun ter grow out on Henry's head, en by de middle er de summer he had de bigges' head er ha'r on de plantation. Befo' dat, Henry had Tol'able good ha'r 'roun' de aidges, but soon ez de young grapes begun ter come, Henry's ha'r begun to quirl all up inn little balls, des like dis yer reg'lar grapy ha'r, en by de time de grapes got ripe his head look like des a bunch er grapes. Combin' it did n' do no good; he wuk at it ha'f de night wid er Jim Crow,[[^1]] en think he git it straighten' out, but in de mawnin'

[[^1]] A small card, resembling a currycomb in construction, and used by negroes in the rural districts instead of a comb.