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"'Bout de only recr'ation us niggers had in dem days was candy pullin's. We all met at one house an' tol' ghost stories, sung plantation songs, an' danced de clog while de candy was cookin'. Dem was de good old days. Dey don't do dem things no mo'. "When a nigger died, we had a wake an' dat was diffrunt too frum whut 'tis today.
Gander Pullin's is popular a lot when I'm a yearlin'; I knows that for shore; though in a age which grows effete it's mighty likely if we-all goes back thar now, we'd find it fallen into disuse as a reelaxation. "In Ridin' for the Chicken's Head, a Mexican don't hang up his prey none same as we-all does at Gander Pullin's.
"Gander Pullin's is conducted near a tavern or a still house so's the assembled gents won't want the inspiration befittin' both the season an' the scene, an' is commonly held onder the auspices of the proprietor tharof. Thar's a track marked out in a cirkle like a little racecourse for the hosses to gallop on. This course runs between two poles pinned into the ground; or mebby it's two trees.
"To the end that you be eddicated, for it's better late than never," I'll pause concernin' Boggs an' the Mexicans long enough to eloocidate of Gander Pullin's. "As I su'gests, we onbends in this pastime at sech epocks as Christmas an' Thanksgivin. I don't myse'f take actooal part in any Gander Pullin's. Not that I'm too delicate, but I ain't got no hoss.
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