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152  The Conjure Woman

knees er de race hoss name' Lightnin'
Bug. Be sho' en git de right one.'
"So de hawnet flewed up ter Kunnel
Pen'leton's stable en stung Lightnin'
Bug roun' de laigs, en de nex' mawnin'
Lightning' Bug's knees wuz all swoll' up,
twice't ez big ez dey oughter be. W'en
Kunnel Pen'leton went out ter de stable
en see de hoss's laigs, hit would' a' des
made you trimble lack a leaf fer ter
heah him cuss dat hoss trader. Howsomeber,
he cool' off bimeby en tol' de
stable boy fer ter rub Lightnin' Bug's
laigs wid some linimum. De boy done
ez his marster tol' 'im, en by de nex' day
de swellin' had gone down consid'able.
Aun' Peggy had sont a sparrer, w'at had
a nes' in one er de trees close ter her
cabin, fer ter watch w'at wuz gwine on
'roun de big house, en w'en dis yer
sparrer tol' 'er de hoss wuz gittin' ober
de swellin', she sont de hawnet back fer
ter sting 'is knees some mo', en de nex'