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Not Used To The North Folkloric Darkey Tale And Child Rhyme
A traveler asks a southern darkey about northern wages and he plans to move to Fargo North Dakota. He travels north in winter and dies in a blizzard. An undertaker mistakenly mixes ashes, a joke line emerges about a cold air in the incinerator. A child named Willie chews mercury, and at the funeral his mother recites a rhymed verse about the mishap.
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