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 Copyright 1931 by Zora Hurston

Time - - Present

Place - - New York

Cast of characters -

Nunkie Too-Sweet PeckerwoodBeckerwood [sic] Black Baby Sack Daddy Aunt Dilsey

TUSH HAWG Come on here, Nunkie - and take a hand! You're holding up the game. You been woofin' round here about the poker you can play - now do it!

NUNKIE Yeah, I plays poker. I plays the piano and Gawd knows I plays the devil.