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the bottom of things, I am going to
tell you a whole lot about myself.
“Boys say that they get a great
deal of pleasure out of smoking us.
And I expect they do. But to tell you
che truth, we are poisonous. I told
you a moment ago that I would make
you sick when you first began to
smoke. The reason of that is be
cause there is poison in me. That
poison makes a fellow deathly sick.
A great doctor took one of my little
brothers one day and got all the poison
out of him. We will contain a poison
that the doctors call ‘nicotine.’ Well,
ne took some of that poison which
came-from my brother and gave it
to a frog. He didn’t have anything
against the poor frog, but he just want
ed to find out something. The poor
frog Tjegan to act queerly, and the
first thing he knew he was as dead
as any frog ever was. The doctor
then took the other part of the drop
of poison and gave it to the dead
frog’s brother, and in less time than
it takes to tell it, frog No. 2 had joined
his brother, in the happy hunting
grounds of frogdom. It’s funny how
we can kill frogs as well as folks.”
I was getting in earnest about that
time, I tell you, so I said: “Now,
look here, Mr. C. I. Garette, do you
mean to say that you are in the habit
of killing frogs and boys. lam sur
prised to hear you talk that way.”
‘Don’t talk so plain, son,” said the
little man. “You are trying to get
too many things out of me about my
self. I hardly ever tell so much
about who I am and what I do for
folks. But I am going to tell you
something that I hardly ever tell to
anybody. The poison in me is of such
a nature that it kills boys slowly. That
is where it differs from the way it
treats frogs. The poor frog died all
at once, but when I get hold of a boy,
1 try never to turn loose until he is
poisoned all through his system. His
mind is weakened, he cannot think as
well as he could before he began to
use us, his body is not as strong, his
will power is weakened. He cannot
do as he knows he ought to do, and
we have him as our slave. How would
you like to be my slave, Mr. Billie?”
I laughed at such impudence. “The
idea of my being a slave to such a
thing as you are,” I said. “I wouldn’t
be a slave to a king who owned half
the world, apd do you think I would
be a slave to such a tiny, insignifi
cant thing as you are. Pshaw, you
make me tired.”
The little feiiow rolled over on his
back after I had made that speech,
and 1 bent right over close to him
co see what was the matter. I found
that he was just nearly dying laugh
ing at me. I heard him scream be
tween laughs: "The very idea of a
boy like Billie talking about me that
way. Why, my family has made
slaves of tens of thousands of folks a
sight bigger and better than you are.
Why, I know dozens and dozens of
preachers who are the biggest slaves
in the world. Some do not belong
to me, but tney belong to father. They
are his obedient slaves. They belong
to the T. O. Bacco family in one way
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or another. Some of them belong
to old man Pipe’s family. They
smoke him and do just as he says.
Wny, my family gets tnem in such
slavery that they will smoke right in
che house, and some will chew my
grandfather, T. O. Bacco and spit
his insides out on the floor. Why, my
grandfather tells me that some folks
are such slaves to his family that
they go to Church and spit the amber
out on the side of the pulpit and
watch it run down in a long, straight
line to the floor, while the preacher
is trying to tell the people how to be
pure and clean.
“Sometimes they take some of our
family and grind them up into a fine
powder, put it in boxes or bottles, and
then nice, pretty women take it in the
form of snuff.”
“What do they do with snuff?” I
asked.
“It’s too funny for anything to
watch the women dip my folks. They
first get a stick of some kind. A
black gum stick is about the best,
they say. Then, they chew one end
of this stick until it gets to be a mop.
This mop is dipped into the bottle or
box, and when it comes out is full of
snuff. Then, the dipper takes the
mop, smears the snuff all over her
mouth and teeth, and generally gets
a beautiful ring all around her mouth.
I heard a man who was not one of our
slaves say once that he would rather
kiss a goat than a woman with our
ring around her mouth. But I think
he was a little particular, don’t you?”
‘ I am not so sure about that,” I
said, “for I remember to have seen
some of your servants, and if I am not
mistaken, after one has been your
slave for some time he smells worse
than a respectable goat. Old Deacon
Brown got right close to me one night
when he was trying to tell me how to
find the Lord, and while I have forgot
ten what he said to me, I have never
forgotten how that breath of his
smelled. It nearly knocked me down.
And the deacon is one of your best
slaves, is he not?”
“One of our very best,” said the
little man. “He tells the sinners about
being slaves of the devil, and he is one
of the most obedient slaves we have;
we can make him get up at the hour
of midnight to take a chew of old
grandfather’s plug. To tell you the
truth, the deacon is one of the easiest
ones we have on our slave list. He
would resent it if you should tell him
that he is a helpless slave, and really
there is no use of telling him any
thing of the kind. He thinks he is
having a good time using my family,
and I am in favor of allowing him to
go on in that deceived fashion. There
were never slaves more fully under
the control of their masters in the
times of the Greeks and Romans than
the deacon is under our control now.
The Golden Age, for November 21, 1912.
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I heard him say once that he would
rather be dead than to be the hope
less slave to any one except the Lord,
VQt I laughed for I knew our family
had him teeth and toe nails.”
I was simply astounded at the long
speech from the little man. He got
up from where he was lying and came
to my pallet again. He came right
close again, and shouted in my ear,
“Say, Billie, won’t you light me and
suck me a few times?”
"Will it help me to get a good posi
tion when I get a little older?” I ask
ed.
(Continued next week.)
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